Gender

Paediatrics Academy Starts Drive On Child Rights

To make parents aware about the child rights and help children safeguard their own rights, Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) have initiated a year long awareness campaign. I...

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UN Chief Calls For More Men To Stand Up For Gender Equality

The world needs more women leaders and men standing up for gender equality, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said while asserting that the empowerment of women is about breaking ...

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How Working Remotely Is Helping Women Close The Gender Gap In Tech

It is no secret that I am a big advocate for remote teams. Since launching my startup in Bali, I have hired top talent from all over the world to help build Mailbird into what...

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Patchy Progress on Fixing Global Gender Disparities in Science

Although women are publishing more studies, being cited more often, and securing more coveted first-author positions than they were in the mid 1990s, overall progress towards ...

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Indonesia Push To Teach Gender Equality In Schools Amid Rising Violence Against Women

IN the face of rising violence against female students, an Indonesian state commission has called for changes in the national school curriculum to promote gender equality and ...

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76 Women Voyage To The Edge Of The World To Fight Gender Inequality

There's a running joke that one has to sport a beard to conduct scientific research in Antarctica. Except it isn't really a joke, because until the mid-20th century women were...

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Geena Davis Says Hollywood Hasn't Progressed Enough Since A League of Their Own

The actress and activist recalls in a new interview — filmed for League‘s 25th-anniversary Blu-ray release — that the hit baseball comedy was supposed to be ...

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Air India Flight With All Women Crew Eyes Record

Aircraft circles the globe; feat comes ahead of International Women’s Day In a quest to set a new world record, Air India has operated a flight around the world with an ...

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Bollywood & Sons, You Think You Can Bully Kangana Ranaut Out Of The Film Industry?

My name is Vinta Nanda and I have been around in the Indian entertainment industry since the mid-1980s. I started off as an assistant director under my idol Nadira Babbar in h...

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The Gender Identity Crisis for Today’s Children

It’s been almost a year since I wrote about the issue of transgender students and bathrooms in schools, and it is time to revisit the subject. One week ago, the Trump ad...

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POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024