Passage 1

In a recent report, has highlighted how gender disparities in health and care work adversely affect women, health systems, and outcomes.

Titled ‘Fair share for health and care: gender and the undervaluation of health and care work,’ the report said that women constitute a significant portion of the global health and care workforce, yet they also perform the majority of unpaid care activities. This imbalance results in lower wages and poor working conditions for women.

“Women comprise 67% of the paid global health and care workforce. In addition to this paid work, it has been estimated that women perform a major of all unpaid care activities. Work that is done primarily by women tends to be paid less and have poor working conditions,” the report said.

Source – https://thewire.in/women/globally-women-perform

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Passage 2

A tactical transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) executed a precision airdrop of two combat boats along with marine commandos while assisting the Navy to seize a hijacked cargo vessel from pirates.
The IAF described the airdrop of the Combat Rubberised Raiding Craft (CRRC) boats and the MARCOS commandos as a “remarkable display” of “jointness” between the two forces.
The Navy on Saturday captured 35 pirates and freed 17 hostages held by them after seizing the former Maltese-flagged merchant vessel around 2,600 km from the Indian coast in a well-calibrated operation.
“In a remarkable display of #Jointness & #Integration, an IAF aircraft executed a precision Airborne Drop of two Combat Rubberised Raiding Craft (CRRC) boats, along with Indian Navy MARCOS”, IAF posted.
Source- https://indianexpress.com/article/india/iaf-aircraft-