Arvind’s Newsletter

1.Why half of India's urban women stay at home. Data from India's first Time Use Survey - which measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities - to find out more about how gender inequality impacts daily mobility- has interesting findings.

When surveyors visited households, more than half - 53% - of women said they had not stepped outside home the previous day. Only 14% of the men said they had also stayed in.

The study also found that girls were less likely to go out than boys when they were in their adolescence - aged 10 to 19 - and that there was a "slight increase in mobility" when women reached middle age. Mr Goel, author of study, believes it shows that conservative social norms that restrict women from working outside home, or going out of home at all "start their effect early in childhood".

Israel’s new far-right government is besieged by multiple crises, mostly of its own creation, and with no clear way out reports Bloomberg : Israeli troops have killed more than 60 Palestinians in 2023, the most in two decades, as the US, and neighbors Egypt and Jordan, grasp for a solution. Odds of an Israeli strike against a quickening Iranian nuclear program may be rising as well. And domestic strife may be reaching a breaking point as hundreds of thousands of Israelis take to the streets to decry plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (who faces charges of bribery) and his government to gut the judiciary. How serious is the schism? Yuval Diskin, former head of Israel’s domestic security agency, says “we are liable to be on the brink of civil war.”

3.Loneliness doesn’t just make people feel isolated. It alters their brain in ways that can hinder their ability to trust and connect to others.

4.The Oscar Rosters 2023: with Thanks to FoundingFuel blog.