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Item Rights on Paper, Realities at Work: A Legal Perspective on Women’s Professional Advancement(INTEGRITY EDUCATION INDIA, 2026) Wasim AhmadIndia has constructed an extensive legal framework for women's workplace rights spanning constitutional guarantees, equal remuneration legislation, sexual harassment law, maternity protections, and corporate board mandates. Yet India ranked 129th out of 146 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2024, with women constituting only 37 percent of the labour force and contributing just 18 percent of GDP. This chapter interrogates the structural distance between legislative intent and lived reality for Indian working women. The chapter proceeds through four analytical layers. First, it maps the constitutional and international normative foundations Articles 14, 15, 19(1)(g), 21, and 39(d) alongside India's obligations under CEDAW and ILO Convention No. 100. Second, it traces judicial evolution from the formalistic reasoning of Air India v. Nargesh Meerza (1981) to the substantive equality frameworks in Lt. Col. Nitisha v. Union of India (2021). Third, it subjects each major statute to critical scrutiny: the Equal Remuneration Act's definitional narrowness that excludes equal-value comparisons; the Maternity Benefit Amendment Act's employer-only cost structure that empirical data links directly to job losses, the Companies Act's single-woman-director minimum that produces tokenism without substantive board power; and the POSH Act's chronic non-compliance record. Fourth, it Identifies two emerging frontiers entirely unaddressed by existing law the exclusion of gig workers from all protective frameworks, and the absence of any regulatory mechanism governing algorithmic bias in Al-assisted recruitment. The chapter concludes with six targeted legislative and enforcement recommendations grounded in comparative analysis and Indian empirical evidence.Item Protecting The Digital Child: Consent, Safety, And Regulatory Obligations Under The Dpdpa, 2023(Book Rivers, 2026) Wasim AhmadThe Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (hereinafter DPDPA or the Act ) represents India s first comprehensive legislative response to the challenges of personal data governance in the digital age. While the Act introduces certain child-specific provisions, it falls considerably short of offering a robust, rights- based framework for the protection of children in the digital ecosystem. This chapter undertakes a critical doctrinal, comparative, and policy analysis of three interrelated dimensions of child data protection: the consent mechanism under the DPDPA, the regulatory obligations imposed upon data fiduciaries in relation to children s online safety, and the significant legislative gaps that leave the digital child inadequately protected. Drawing upon constitutional jurisprudence, comparative frameworks from the European Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and the normative standards of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the chapter argues that the DPDPA treats child data protection as a peripheral concern rather than a foundational imperative. It calls for the enactment of a dedicated children s online safety and data protection legislation, the institutionalisation of a Children’s Digital Rights Commissioner, and the adoption of age-appropriate design standards as legally binding obligations in India.Item Crisis of Humanity: Legal responses to War and Displacement Challenges(The Lawgical Junction and MJS Publishing House, 2025) Wasim Ahmad