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News In Short 09-03-2026

In News

  • Recently, the Indian Railways launched the SHINE app on International Women’s Day to enhance safety and empowerment at work.

    • Sexual Harassment Incident Notification for Empowerment (SHINE) App

  • It is mobile app for women employees to lodge complaints about sexual harassment in the workplace.
  • It is designed to maintain confidentiality and ensure complaints are addressed quickly by the Internal Complaints Committee, in line with Visakha guidelines (1997) and government instructions.
  • Complaints can be filed through the Human Resources Management System (HRMS) and the Employee Self Service portal.

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    AI & Future of Work: Anthropic’s Labour Market Study

    Context

  • A recent labour market study by Anthropic highlights the growing gap between the theoretical capabilities of AI and its actual workplace usage, and reveals early signals of structural shifts in employment.

    • Key Highlights of Anthropic’s Labour Market Study

  • Introduction of a New Metric: A new measure called ‘Observed Exposure’ to assess the impact of AI on jobs.
  • It combines task-level occupational data, academic estimates of AI capability, and real-world usage data from the Claude AI system.
  • Large Gap Between AI Capability and Actual Usage: The study found that AI’s theoretical ability to perform job tasks is much higher than its current use in professional settings.

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    From Women’s Development to Women-led Development

    Context

  • India stands at a defining moment of her development journey with the narrative shifting decisively from women’s development to women-led development. 

    • Status of Women in India

  • Early Education: India has achieved gender parity index with gross enrolment reaching 1.0 at the foundational, preparatory, middle, and 1.1 at the secondary level. 
  • Higher Education: Female enrolment rose from 1.57 crore to 2.18 crore and Female GER improved from 22.9 to 30.2.

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    Women in Indian Armed Forces

    Context

  • On International Women’s Day (8 March), the expanding leadership and operational roles of women in the Indian Armed Forces highlight their growing contribution to national defence and gender equality.

    • Historical Trajectory of Women in India’s Defence Services

  • The role of women in India’s defence services has evolved steadily from limited support functions to increasingly diverse operational and leadership positions.

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    India’s ‘leaky pipeline’ Problem

    In News

  • Recently, it has been observed that Globally, women are underrepresented in STEM, a problem often called the “leaky pipeline.”

    • About

  • Women remain significantly underrepresented in STEM globally and in India, despite progress in education access. 
  • Women constitute only 35% of STEM graduates across the world and earn only 40% of STEM PhDs. 
  • Further, based on data from 146 nations, women scientists comprise only 30% of the STEM workforce, which includes academic jobs and faculty positions.

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    The Need to Recognise ‘volunteer’ Care Work

    Context

  • The Union Budget 2026-27 proposes to build a ‘strong care ecosystem’ by training 1.5 lakh multiskilled caregivers in geriatric, core care and allied skills through programmes aligned with the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF). 

    • What is Care Work? 

  • It mainly consists of two overlapping activities: direct, personal, and relational care activities, such as feeding a baby; and indirect care activities, such as cooking and cleaning. 
  • Unpaid care and domestic work, such as nursing an ill partner or cooking for a family member, is care work provided without monetary compensation. 
  • Paid care work such as domestic services provided by domestic workers is performed by care workers in exchange for some form of remuneration. 

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    One Nation, One Election: Constitutional Concerns

    Published on: 09 March, 2026

    Comparative international experience and constitutional principles raise concerns regarding federalism, democratic accountability, and institutional design for the proposed ‘One Nation, One Election’ (ONOE) in India.

    संक्षिप्त समाचार 09-03-2026

    समाचारों में 

  • हाल ही में भारतीय रेल ने अंतर्राष्ट्रीय महिला दिवस पर कार्यस्थल पर सुरक्षा और सशक्तिकरण बढ़ाने हेतु SHINE ऐप लॉन्च किया।

    • यौन उत्पीड़न घटना अधिसूचना हेतु सशक्तिकरण (SHINE)ऐप

  • यह मोबाइल ऐप महिला कर्मचारियों को कार्यस्थल पर यौन उत्पीड़न की शिकायत दर्ज करने की सुविधा प्रदान करता है।
  • इसे गोपनीयता बनाए रखने और शिकायतों को शीघ्रता से आंतरिक शिकायत समिति द्वारा निपटाने के लिए डिज़ाइन किया गया है, जो 1997 की विशाखा दिशानिर्देशों और सरकारी निर्देशों के अनुरूप है।
  • शिकायतें मानव संसाधन प्रबंधन प्रणाली (HRMS) और कर्मचारी स्व-सेवा पोर्टल (Employee Self Service Portal) के माध्यम से दर्ज की जा सकती हैं।

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    कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता और कार्य का भविष्य: एंथ्रॉपिक का श्रम बाज़ार अध्ययन

    संदर्भ

  • एंथ्रॉपिक द्वारा हाल ही में किए गए श्रम बाज़ार अध्ययन में कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता (AI) की सैद्धांतिक क्षमताओं और उसके वास्तविक कार्यस्थल उपयोग के बीच बढ़ते अंतर को उजागर किया गया है तथा रोजगार में संरचनात्मक परिवर्तनों के प्रारंभिक संकेतों को सामने रखा गया है।

    • एंथ्रॉपिक के श्रम बाज़ार अध्ययन की प्रमुख विशेषताएँ

  • नए मापदंड का परिचय: ‘ऑब्ज़र्व्ड एक्सपोज़र’ नामक एक नया मापदंड प्रस्तुत किया गया है, जो रोजगारों पर AI के प्रभाव का आकलन करता है।
  • यह कार्य-स्तर पर व्यवसायिक आँकड़े, AI क्षमता के शैक्षणिक अनुमान और क्लाउड AI प्रणाली से प्राप्त वास्तविक उपयोग डेटा को संयोजित करता है।
  • AI क्षमता और वास्तविक उपयोग के बीच बड़ा अंतर: अध्ययन में पाया गया कि रोजगार कार्यों को करने की AI की सैद्धांतिक क्षमता वास्तविक पेशेवर उपयोग से कहीं अधिक है।

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