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It’s Time That English News Media Stops Being Sexist.

The news channels keep debating about how women get a raw deal in our country. How India is a male-dominated society. Anchors and activists get your blood to a boil, an Arn...

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Bollywood

In Hindi Films, Strong Women Are A Formula That Works.

In the hit Hindi film of the season, an architect cares for her cantankerous father, enduring his careful analysis of his own constipation, his contempt for marriage, which...

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Gender

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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Gender

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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Bollywood

Affluent Families Put Women In A Box: Priyanka Chopra

Bollywood actress-singer Priyanka Chopra, who plays a submissive daughter in her latest release “Dil Dhadakne Do”, says gender inequality does exist in affluent...

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Gender

Diversity In Children’s Apps: ‘Gender Depictions Tend To Be Very Stereotyped’

A growing number of children’s app makers are upping their efforts to ensure their products do a better job of reflecting the diversity of their young audiences. This...

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Gender

‘The Trials Of Spring’ Documentary Project Amplifies Voices Of Women In The Arab Spring

A new multimedia documentary project is spotlighting the vital roles of women in the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. “The Trials of Spring”, is a series of six shor...

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Thought Factory

TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essa...

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Health

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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Gender

After Retirement, Esther Ritz Became A Full-Time Painter At 55 And Never Looked Back

The art world has an alluring, if somewhat illusory, exterior. It gives off the impression of being progressive, fluid, experimental — a space for outsiders of all ki...

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