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New Film Prize Created To Promote Better Roles For Women

The New York-based Independent Filmmaker Project and Phosphate Productions have partnered to create a new prize, The Phosphate Prize at IFP, to encourage indie film writers...

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Caste Scars Gender Reality In K’shetra Village

Male child boom in upper caste families as girls’ ratio stands at 308Upper caste families of Mangoli Jattan village — having the worst gender ratio in the distr...

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Queen Bee Syndrome’: The Myth That Keeps Working Women In Their Little Box

The idea popularised by Heathers and The Devil Wears Prada, that successful women connive to keep other women down, bears no relation to reality. A new survey by Columbia B...

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How Women Contribute $3 Trillion To Global Healthcare

The traditional focus on women’s health tends to emphasise only their healthcare needs. But women are important providers – as much as they are recipients &ndas...

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Inequality Has Transformed Surviving Childhood Into A Global Postcode Lottery

Children?? lives are shaped by social and economic factors that often differ wildly between and within countries ??a grim reality that only a skilled, readily available hea...

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The Film By Two Women That Has Wall Street Talking

Hollywood hasn’t released a notable female-led film set on Wall Street for 27 years. Not since Mike Nichols’s 1988 comedy Working Girl—starring Melanie Gr...

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CBSE, State Boards To Bring In Gender Sensitivity Modules

With the increasing emphasis on gender sensitivity and issues of violence against women, both the CBSE and the State board are taking steps to sensitise their students and ...

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New Report Shows Women In Fisheries Sector Are Underpaid

A new Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report shows that though women make up nearly half of all people in the fisheries sector, they often do not get their dues. A ...

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How Can We Make Medication Use In Pregnancy Safer?

Women?? human rights need to be addressed globally in order to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. And healthcare professionals have an important role to play in tackl...

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Gates Foundation Head Challenges Students To Pursue Big Ambitions In Public Health

As the chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sue Desmond-Hellmann leads a multi-billion dollar effort to improve health and promote equity for...

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