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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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Opinion: Integrating Water, Sanitation And Health Are Key To The Promise Of The UN Global Goals
AMMAN, Oct 30 2015 (IPS) – The 193 member states of the United Nations have adopted an ambitious 15-year sustainable development agenda, the 2030 Global Goals To underst...
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Do Women Get More Credit For Leadership?
Research on women who demonstrate stereotypically male behaviors at work has yielded mixed findings. On the one hand, some studies suggest those women are less liked and evalu...
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Why Age Discrimination Is Worse For Women
It’s something that’s started to get on peoples’ nerves in pop culture: Hollywood seems totally open to older male actors, but aside from the Helen Mirrens o...
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That Which Is Rarely Discussed: The Patriarchy With In The Naxalbari Movement
The Naxalite uprising has been since its inception a war waged against the class enemies. Charu Majumder, the frontrunner of the Naxalbari movement declared his “annihil...
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Could Paternity Leave Help Tackle Gender Violence?
What’s paternity leave got to do with violence against women and the sexual exploitation of girls? More than you’d think it turns out. Fathers who are involved in ...
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Indian Women Facing Inequality At All Stages Of Life Cycle: UN Study
A study of the United Nations released on 20 October 2015 observed that Indian women are facing inequality at all stages of life cycle-from birth to old age-and in all places ...
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