Female News

The more educated a woman, the higher the salary discrimination, says a study by IIM-A, citing the career-breaks women often take as a reason. While women with no formal education earn 11.99% more than their male counterparts do, women with basic education earn 10% less, and the gap shoots up to over 40% in cases where women have master's degrees.

India's first women's bank, Bharatiya Mahila Bank will be inaugurated on Indira Gandhi's birth anniversary (Nov-19) by PM Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi in Mumbai. Usha Ananthasubramanian has been appointed as CMD of the Bank. Headquartered in Delhi, seven branches will be operational post inauguration and the bank is expected to have network of 25 branches by March.

Challenging a law graduate's allegations of sexual harassment on a retired judge, a lawyer has filed a PIL in Supreme Court seeking action against a website (Legal India) and The Times of India for publishing the girl's narrative. The lawyer says, he has "learnt through ancient books which has already established several times that a lady never speaks the truth."

Google launched its 'Helping women get online' mission aimed at bringing 50-miilion Indian women online for the first time, with the launch of a website on Thursday. The website describes computer and internet basics and highlights internet benefits, while a toll-free hotline is also available for more information. Google has partnered with HUL, Axis Bank and Intel for the campaign.

In response to a petition, the Bombay high court has ruled that a married daughter is equally entitled to a government job on compassionate grounds on father's demise. Giving job to unmarried daughters of government servants but denying the same benefit to married daughters violates the rights that are enshrined in the Constitution, the court said.

Microsoft India on Thursday announced that it is introducing a new safety app named Guardian, which is aimed at protecting women. The app enables users to switch on a 'track me' feature that lets people track them in real time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map APIs. It is available exclusively for Windows phone users in India.