Becky Blab

Confidom – Passion rings for women is an ode to the newer generation, smart and confident Indian women. 
NACO (National Aids Control Organisation) and the Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust (HLFPPT) are beginning to push the female condom, aptly named “Confidom passion rings”. It has been tested among sex workers for its acceptability and [...]

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A new project which will attempt to gather comprehensive data on India’s 1/2 billion villages has begun.
The data collectors will gather information about the geographical features of a village, its infrastructure, schools and hospitals, number of toilets, access to roads, gender data and even information about the power consumption of the entire village.
I hope the [...]

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The World Economic Forum has just released its annual Global Gender Gap Report 2007 (read the report here), in which India has ranked shamefully low. While it fared remarkably well in measures of women’s political representation, the indicators for women’s economic participation were its downfall.
While indicators may be slightly problematic in their own right, they [...]

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Interesting followup to yesterday’s post on women in the IT sector.
In Bangalore in southern India, the Belgian socialist white collar union BBTK has just launched a new project in the information technology sector.
In the Indian ICT sector 40% of the white collar workers are women. This is a very high percentage in a country where [...]

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Kalpana Margabandhu, Director, Websphere Development, IBM, said maintaining women in almost all verticals has become a business imperative to understand the needs of a wider customer base that include a large number of women.
To you and me, that means hiring more women makes good business sense. Is this an instrumentalist argument for women’s financial independence [...]

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