Search Result

Search Result
Gender

Why Iceland Is The Best Place In The World To Be A Woman

Rebekka is so tiny that, even on her tiptoes, arms aloft, she cannot reach. So her teacher lifts her up to the unvarnished wooden monkey bar. “One, two, three,”...

Read More
Health

Mobile Diagnostic Device That Helps Pregnant Women In Rural India Receive Timely Medical Attention

A six-page report published in September by the established UK medical journal Lancet provided some shocking figures about maternal mortality in India. It revealed that in ...

Read More
Bollywood

It’s A Great Time To Be A Woman In B-Town: Sonakshi Sinha

With her choice of progressive roles — be it in the recent Akira, a RAW agent in Force 2 or the journalist she plays in Noor, Sonakshi Sinha has been impressing audie...

Read More
Hollywood

Jane Fonda To Be Honored At Equality Now Gala

Equality Now, the international human rights organization dedicated to women’s and girls’ rights, is pleased to announce that it will honor four powerhouses for...

Read More
Gender

What Women Do When They Can't Afford An Abortion

When Ariana Menefee found out that she was pregnant seven years ago, she knew immediately that she needed an abortion. "My pr...

Read More
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 aspi...

Read More
Gender

What Feminism Really Means

I am tired. Completely exhausted. I have tried to ignore people when they make ignorant comments about feminism, crack jokes intended to belittle the movement, or just gene...

Read More
Health

Tackling The Age-Old Problem Of Maternal Mortality Through Modern Technology

Safe Motherhood Week 2016 last week gave us the opportunity to reflect on and talk about the issues surrounding motherhood, and to work together to create simple, innovativ...

Read More
Human Rights

How To Find A Resilient Solution To Extreme Poverty

In the last two weeks, the devastation in Haiti from Hurricane Mathew has grown more and more shocking. Families woke up to see their neighborhoods in tatters, and the numb...

Read More
Alternative Entertainment

Revolutionary New Comic Features Real-Life Acid Attack Survivors; This Is ‘Priya’s Mirror’

Two years ago, New York-based artist Ram Devineni introduced us to a new brand of comic book superheroes–one that doesn’t wear capes or have formidable pow...

Read More