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Vidya Balan: Women Are Often Judged For Their Appearances

Times are changing -both inside the film industry and outside as well. And actress Vidya Balan considers herself as an agent of that change. In a telephonic interview, she ...

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Gender

Videocon Telecom Announces Free Data To All Its Female Subscribers.

Taking the Prime Minister’s vision of Digital India forward, Videocon Telecom, on Wednesday took another big initiative and announced 1GB free Data for all its female...

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Gender

You’ll Never Believe Why India Is Better Than Silicon Valley For Women!

This seems rather hard to believe considering the multitude of articles written on gender discrimination against women in India. But India is a land of surprising dichotomi...

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Gender

Ireland Passes Law Allowing Trans People To Choose Their Legal Gender

Transgender people in Ireland have won legal recognition of their status after a law was passed allowing them to change their legal gender with no medical or state interven...

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Gender

Oscars Shouldn’t Compromise To Up Diversity, Say Female Academy Members

Producers Marcia Nasatir and Bonnie Arnold suggest rapid pace of change at voting body could undermine requirement for high standard of professional achievement Two high-pr...

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Gender

Sweden: Pioneers In Gender Equality

The film industry has a notoriously strong masculine bias. Gender disparity is entrenched and women continue to face an uphill battle. The number of women in some areas of ...

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Bollywood

Kangana Ranaut On Her Journey In Bollywood

In a candid interview, Kangna Ranaut opens up about her journey from being a diffident outsider to becoming a poised woman of substance in Bollywood, nine years after enter...

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Gender

Your Children’s Toys Are Perpetuating Gender Discrimination

In my work in the media and in my role as a mother of both a young man and woman, I have been regularly stunned at how girls are routinely labeled, classified, and shaped i...

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Sustainable Development

Can We Finance Sustainable Development?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the most comprehensive international poverty alleviation movement in history. Since 1990, extreme poverty has been cut by ...

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Gender

David Cameron To Force Companies To Disclose Gender Pay Gaps

Large companies will finally be forced to disclose whether they are paying men more than women from next year, David Cameron will say on Tuesday. In a move that has long be...

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