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The Story Of Sobita Tamuli, The Woman Who Brought Entrepreneurship To Her Small Village In Assam

Back in 2002, SobitaTamuli was an 18-year-old married girl with little formal education, living in a small village in Assam. Today, she is a successful entrepreneur heading...

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Festivals

Women Directors Are Everywhere, But Film Festivals Are Still Catching Up — NYFF

The following essay was written by a participant in the 2016 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring critics co-produced by IndieWire, the Film Soci...

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Hollywood

The Hollywood Reporter's 2016 Women In Entertainment Breakfast To Honor Tina Fey

The Hollywood Reporter announced today that Tina Fey will receive the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award and Ryan Murphy will receive the first-ever Equity...

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Alternative Entertainment

Fighting Vitamin A Deficiency With A New Kind Of Sweet Potato, Radio, And People Power

Sometimes a small change can make a big difference. Across sub-Saharan Africa, a new kind of sweet potato is helping families guard against vitamin A deficiency. Radio is h...

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Gender

Wonder Woman Named Honorary U.N. Ambassador For Gender Equality

The United Nations has announced a new honorary ambassador for women and girls, and she's not a human woman or girl. She's a comic-book...

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Bollywood

Women Are Easy Targets, Says Swara Bhaskar

Swara Bhaskar doesn’t mince words. She has always voiced her opinion, even if it starts a debate. Earlier this month, she wrote an ope...

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Gender

TBI Blogs: One Woman Single-Handedly Brought An Entire District Back On Its Feet After The Manipur Floods

Even thinking about the lashing rains, followed by massive landslides, road cave-ins, a bridge collapse, and hundreds of crumbling homes, brings chilling fear back to her b...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Maid For Mumbai

It may or may not be true of other cities, but Mumbai moves on tracks built partly by the bais, the domestic helpers, mostly from rural Maharashtra, who manage homes, so th...

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Bollywood

Sonali Bendre Launches The 'Healthy Conversations' Initiative By Revital H Woman

Revital H Woman recently launched the 'Healthy Conversations' initiative to bring the health of Indian women in focus .This initiative aims to reach over 2 million women ac...

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Human Rights

TBI Blogs: Why The Proposed Amendment To The Maternity Benefits Act Is Being Hailed As A Win For Women’s Rights

Workplaces tend to view an employee’s pregnancy as, at best, an inconvenience to the business and, at worst, a career-ending sentence. From time to time, women across...

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