Gender

Moms, Don’t close the gate on the Dads!

While dads are super-cool and playful with their babies, they sometimes lack an emotional connect. There’s a reason for that. A new study suggests that a new mother's re...

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Women Worth More Than A Billion

Women are making a mark in fields as diverse as technology, research, investment and entrepreneurship in today's changing economy. While many women have successfully taken ove...

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Society’s Gendered Double Standards for One’s Vulnerability

There was a time when men were dismissed as an ‘emotion-less’ gender. Because of the way boys are socialized, their ability to deal with emotions has been systemat...

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Pakistan Stands Up for Transgender Rights

Transgenders are a diverse community, representing all racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as faith backgrounds. They come from all walks of life. They are dads and moms, b...

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Working Mom? Feel Guilty No More!

While many believe the ‘ideal situation’ for young children is one where their mother doesn’t work at all (according to a 2015 Pew report) but studies sugges...

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Meet Sandra Moran: Guatemala’s First Openly Lesbian Congresswoman

Sandra Moran, 55, was elected to Congress as its first openly gay member in the September 2015 general election. She took office in January 2016, promising to drive forward re...

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A Team of Women Conserve the Giant Gentle Manta Rays

At up to 23 feet wide and 5,300 pounds, calling a manta ray “giant” is an understatement. Manta rays have the biggest brain of any fish, so underwater genius is mo...

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The Tenacious Problem of Surplus Men in India and China

A combination of cultural preferences, government decree and modern medical technology in the world’s two largest countries has created a gender imbalance on a continent...

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#PayMeToo Campaign to close the Gender Pay Gap

April 10th was Equal Pay Day, which marks the point in the year where women in the US have to work to catch up with what men earned last year. The median annual difference is ...

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Want to punish Women with Power… Call them Witches!

Powerful women have been cast as witches in the past and this phenomenon continues to exist in the present time too, in a rather stereotypical way. Madeline Miller writes in T...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE: 55 YEARS ON, MERE APNE’S RELEVANCE

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with the indefatigable poet, lyricist, story-script-write...

January 20 2026

KALEIDOSCOPE: LUCKNOW BETWEEN PAST AND NOW

Cultures are never frozen in time, they keep moving, keep evolving.Filmmaker and writer ...

January 19 2026

HEALTH: WHEN CANCER GETS PERSONAL

As cancer treatment continues to rely on averages and probabilities, a breakthrough appr...

January 18 2026