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SC: Economic Empowerment Is Must For Gender Equality

The Constitutional right to gender equality still remains a dream and women continue to face various kinds of discrimination which can be removed only with economic empower...

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Ideas Thrown Up For Gender Equality

Male chauvinism thrives on the fear of rape among women. When women learn to surpass this fear mentally and physically, it will have no base to exist,” said gender ac...

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Devangshu Datta: How Not To Fix India's Gender Ratio

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi recently suggested that sex determination during pregnancy be made compulsory; that the gender of the unborn child be reg...

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New Court Ruling Is Massive Shift For Gender Rights In India

Women can legally head households, a court in India ruled this week in a monumental verdict for women’s rights. The decision will allow the eldest female in a family ...

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It’s Time For Gender-Free Pronouns

A teacher is a teacher, whether male or female, a novelist is a novelist, but a ballerina is distinguishable from a male dancer. And there is a tendency to call a person on...

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Killing Joy With Gender Bias

HYDERABAD: Achyuta Rao, president, Andhra Pradesh Balala Hakkula Sangham (APBSH), was aghast when he saw children fighting over a chocolate. One little boy dismissed a pink...

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A Push For Gender Equality At The Davos World Economic Forum, And Beyond

As a top executive in the financial industry, Theresa Whitmarsh is accustomed to being the only woman in the room. That was the case the last two years when she attended th...

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Thought Factory

Silent

Deep inside every woman I have ever known across the many hierarchies that paint my world is vacuum; the result of an endless internal conflict that remains unresolved.

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Health

Their Voice Matters: Addressing Child, Early And Forced Marriage

“It is considered normal for a girl to drop out of school, to not go out of the house to meet her friends, to not play, to get married early, to have children and to ...

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Gender

Rural Labour Loses Women, Karnataka Worst Offender

CHENNAI: Women in rural areas are increasingly withdrawing from the country’s labour force. This trend is particularly evident in states like Karnataka, Gujarat and M...

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