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Literacy Campaign For Women In Rural India

Tata Trusts and Google India announced the launch of a special program called “Internet Saathi” to empower women and their communities in rural India by enablin...

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Gender

Tagore’s Stories Have A Strange Sense Of Gender Equality: Anurag Basu

Anurag Basu on adapting Rabindranath Tagore’s stories and the genre-defying format of his next film, Jagga Jasoos. Filmmaker Anurag Basu talks about adapting Rabindra...

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Gender

How Are Girls Faring In The Sustainable Development Goals?

Progress is being made for adolescent girls in negotiations around the Sustainable Development Goals, but there are more opportunities to ensure girls are meaningfully and ...

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Gender

Santa Cruz Shakespeare Launches Its Season Of Gender Equity

In the 400 years the English-speaking world has been performing the plays of William Shakespeare, what’s happening this summer in Santa Cruz may very well be a first....

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Gender

Entrepreneurship Helps Delay Child Marriage In India, Empower Young Women

Impoverished girls in India who are at high risk of child marriage are gaining independence and generating income with the help of a Seattle-based non-profit. Landesa Rural...

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Gender

Twitter embraces Modi’s #SelfieWithDaughter call, skips grim gender gap

Social media platforms were flooded with father-daughter selfies thanks to a message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his monthly radio address on Sunday. “In...

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Gender

Dear Vogue, ‘Gay’ Is Not A Phase.

Thirteen thousand people want the magazine to apologize after the author of a Cara Delevingne profile suggests her being gay is just a ‘phase.’ Some 13,000 peop...

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Hollywood

John Oliver Explains Why Online Harassment Of Women Is A Problem.

John Oliver in his video discusses how women in the US have faced death threats on Twitter John Oliver’s videos have gained a steady following on the Internet, given ...

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Bollywood

Education Key To Gender Equality: Kalki Koechlin

Kalki Koechlin, who has joined hands with the P&G Shiksha programme, says education is the key for gender equality. “I was never a front bencher. I was very bad a...

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Gender

Meet Indian Forest Service Officer Sonali Ghosh.

Born into a family of Army personnel, Sonali Ghosh knew from an early age that she wished to be involved in forest and wildlife conservation. A topper of the Indian Forest ...

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