Gloria Steinem Helps UN Women Unveil Beijing Campaign

At the historic Apollo Theatre in New York, UN Women last week launched a year-long campaign to spark global dialogue and actions on women’s rights and gender equalit...

World Cup 2014 : Girl power wins, Mumbra grants them their own football field

When a motley group of girls in the Muslim-dominated suburb of Mumbra started playing football in secret, they had no idea that three years later, they would be able to kic...

Power Breakfast

Did you know that in movies and television shows only 17% of crowd scenes are made up of women? I learned that and other interesting facts in Mount St. Mary’s 2014 Re...

Ad of the Day: Verizon Reminds Parents That Girls Aren't Just Pretty but 'Pretty Brilliant'

It’s 2014. We’re in a post-feminist society, right? Ha ha. Nope. That’s why campaigns like “Inspire Her Mind,” from Verizon, in partnership wi...

True Review: Ek Villian

Critics Rating:2.5 Stars*

Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Shraddha Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh, Kamaal Rashid Khan, Shaad Randhawa, Aamna Sharif, RemoFernandes,
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Sparks fly as 'Girls Can' campers learn welding, wiring and more

“This is something I really, really want to do,” said Baker High School sophomore Courtney Hutton, as she worked in the welding shop at Bryant Career Technical ...

Harsh Vardhan outlines key to reduce maternal and child deaths

Asserting that the goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths by 2035 is well within reach, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has outlined six key actions to ac...

“She Started It” Aims To Change Silicon Valley’s Gender Inequality Problem

A NEW FILM FOCUSES ON WHAT MAKES FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS SUCCEED--AND INSPIRES THE NEXT GENERATION OF GIRLS TO FOLLOW SUIT. ?You can?t be what you can?t see? said Marie Wilson...

No toilets for girls in one-fifth of India?s schools, enrolment on decline

Dip in number of schools providing midday meals to their students

“About 20 per cent schools in India still lack toilet facilities for girls,” says a re...