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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and SEWA Executive Director Reema Nanavaty listen as women artisans share stories of their involvement with SEWA at the Hansiba Store in Mumbai, India, 18 July 2009. Ela Bhatt, founder and past president of SEWA, appreciating the fabrics at Qalandia Women's Cooperative
Gender pay gap in India refers to the difference in earnings between women and men in the paid employment and the labor market. [1] For the year 2013, the gender pay gap in India was estimated to be 24.81%. [ 2 ]
The National Career Service (NCS) is a career service in India operated by the Indian Government's Ministry of Labour and Employment. It was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 20 July 2015, aimed at replacing the existing nationwide system of Employment Exchanges with IT-enabled Career Centers. [ 1 ]
The company also runs the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing in Jaipur, which was reported in The New York Times to be the only museum in India dedicated to the art of hand-block printing. [ 10 ] [ 6 ] The museum is located in a restored haveli whose restoration work was awarded the UNESCO Heritage Award for Cultural Conservation in 2000.
The National Commission for Women (NCW) is a statutory body of the Government of India, generally concerned with advising the government on all policy matters affecting women. It was established on 31 January 1992 under the provisions of the Indian Constitution , [ 1 ] as defined in the 1990 National Commission for Women Act. [ 2 ]
All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) is a women's organisation committed to achieving democracy, equality and women's emancipation. It has an organisational presence in 23 states in India, with a current membership of more than 11 million. About two-thirds of the organisation's strength is derived from poor rural and urban women.
India's labour productivity in food retailing is about 5% compared to Brazil's 14%; while India's labour productivity in non-food retailing is about 8% compared to Poland's 25%. [47] Total retail employment in India, both organised and unorganised, account for about 6% of Indian labour work force currently - most of which is unorganised.
In 2014, Garden Ridge converted all stores to the At Home brand and floorplan. [7] The rebranding project changed the use of orange color for advertising to a soft grey and blue, and added a house symbol for the "o" in At Home. [8] The rebranding cost around $20 million. [8] At Home publicly filed an S-1 on September 4, 2015, to go public. [9]