Sisva In Gujarat Has An All Women Panchayat: They Are Delivering Results What Generations Have Failed

Sisva in Gujarat has an all women panchayat, led by 26 year old Hinal Patel. These girls are not only breaking stereotypes, but delivering results.  In a country, wher...

A Kabaddi Tournament Helps Break Gender Barriers

For many of the families of Shivaji Nagar, even the idea of girls entering the playground without an accompanying male family member was alien. When Sabiya Sheikh tried to ...

This Year, Carnival To Ensure Gender Justice

KOCHI: Over the past 32 years, Cochin Carnival has become one of the most important events in Fort Kochi’s festival calendar. But it has long been considered male dom...

11 Ways To Close The Gender Gap In Financial Inclusion.

How can NGOs, the private sector and policymakers accelerate women’s economic empowerment? Our panel share their thoughts

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If You Can See It, You Can Be It

‘If you see it, you can be it’ could have been the unofficial slogan of the International Development Cooperation meeting on Gender and Media, where I was invit...

At This Home For Juveniles, Inmates Get Training In Gender Sensitivity And More

AT A time when the country recalls the ghastly December 16 rape case in New Delhi and people are debating over whether or not the juvenile involved in the crime should have...

These 15 Events Prove That 2015 Was A Good Year For Gender Equality In India

It’s been three years since December 16th, 2012. Three years since India was plunged into a social revolution of sorts, when the brutal gangrape of a 23 year old stud...

How Nirbhaya Rape Case Points To India's Deep-Rooted Problem With Women

New Delhi (CNN) There’s crime and then there’s evil, pure and simple. By any standards, the events of December 12, 2012 can only be described as evil — th...

Gender Bias At Christmas: What If Santa Were A Woman?

For its Christmas film this year, agency Anomaly London decided to ask kids a provocative question: what if Santa were a woman? Their answers, revealed in this cute, but ey...