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Gender
Can Quotas Help Tackle The Confidence Gender Gap?
Quotas — in politics, business, or education — are a heavy-handed way to banish gender discrimination. They increase female representation, but at what c...
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Boys And Girls Are Born Equal: The Power Of Challenging Gender Norms Early In Life
Diya (not her real name), a young girl in Jharkhand, India, regularlyexperiences violence at the hands of her father. The injuries shesustains from her father’s abuse ar...
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Women Power To The Fore
Electing 54 per cent women members in the LSG polls in a near total literate state like Kerala would prove effective, corruption-free administration when especially ...
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Are Quotas The Way To Get Women To The Top?
As a young, ambitious British lawyer, Cherie Blair was firmly against imposing quotas to help advance women’s careers but 30 years later she is happy to admit she was wr...
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India May Lose Rs 46 Lakh Crore Due To Gender Inequality: McKinsey
Discrimination against women is not new in India; it’s an historical phenomenon. You will be surprised to know that for the same amount of work, women are paid 62% less ...
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Overcoming Culture: Can India Eliminate Gender Violence?
Just over a month ago on September 25th, the 193 member countries of the United Nations voted on and approved the new 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the hope o...
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India To Review Personal Laws For Muslims ‘To Rectify Gender Biases’
India’s supreme court has announced that it will review the country’s personal law code for Muslims, in what it says is an attempt to rectify any biases against wo...
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Supreme Court Sets 2005 Cut-Off On Women Right To Ancestral Property
The court said the father would have had to be alive on September 9, 2005, if the daughter were to become a co-sharer with her male siblings. In a ruling that will restrict th...
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How Street Plays & Theatre Are Raising The Curtain On Violence Against Women In UP
Domestic violence, sexual harassment and dowry cases are not really news in the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh. But a few compassionate activists and organizations are taking on...
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The Ethics Of Commercial Surrogacy: Gender Inequality Arguments
This is a follow-up to the previous post on Debra Satz’s analysis of commercial surrogacy. In that post, I reviewed three classic objections to surrogacy and presented s...
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