POLICY CENTRE AND GENDER LAB

India is a country with one of the largest youth population in the world. More than 62% of the population is in the working age group. According to some estimates, around 250 million people would be joining the workforce in the next decade. This will greatly enhance the degree of competition, which would eventually lead to, as Darwin said, “Survival of the Fittest”. Employees would be required to have more and better skills than they originally need to survive.  Not only this, globalisation too has played a major role in reflecting the need for a better, skilled workforce, both for the developed and developing nations. It has also been observed that nations with highly skilled human capital tend to have higher GDP and per capita income levels and they adjust more effectively to the challenges and opportunities of the world of work and jobs.  Against this backdrop, India is driving unique initiatives to convert its demographic potential into a dividend that will fuel the countr...

  SOURCE- UNSPLASH BY- BRANKO STANCEVIC The trends in India’s demographics show that India is home to relatively the youngest individuals across the world. In 2010, the total working age population in India was 64.5 per cent of the total population, which is projected to rise to 68.3 per cent by 2040 surpassing China. To make this demographic dividend an asset rather than a liability it is the duty of the government to provide quality education and skilled employment opportunities in order to grow its economy. A skilled Indian can contribute a great share in the GDP of his country provided he gets job opportunity. India’s formally skilled workforce is approximately 2% - which is dismally low compared to China (47%), Japan (80%) or South Korea (96%). India still holds an unemployment rate of 17.7 per cent among graduates in the country while among those having attained a diploma after graduation; it was even higher at 22.4 per cent. The government policies of PMKVY, UDAAN, SANK...

Women’s Equality Day Survey Manjima Anjana Shallu Jaglan Harshita Srivastav Policy Center and Gender Lab, Miranda House Au thors Note First section: Policy Center and Gender Lab in Miranda House Second section: Purpose of the survey Third section: Responses and observations Fourth section: Conclusion and way forward Fifth Section: Conclusion Abstract “An important query the Policy Centre & Gender lab had pertained to the role of career breaks taken by women, mostly during the months of pregnancy and post-childbirth, in justifying the lower wages paid to women compared to men doing the same job.   An overwhelming majority of 97% reaffirmed that it is erroneous to assume that career breaks taken by women can be used as a tool to underrate the value of work done by them.”   Women’s Equality Day Survey Policy Centre & Gender Lab conducted a survey on the issue of Women’s Equality Awareness among the society and its members. The day aimed to understand the level...