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Thought Factory

Beyond Pink and Blue!

When a baby is born, the obstetrician announces “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl.” As babies, children learn to categorize everyone as eithe...

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Gender

Owning Property Empowers Women In Unique Ways”: An Interview With Bina Agarwal

Bina Agarwal is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was the Director and Professor of Economics at ...

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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

Outside Of Class, This Afghan Teen Rapper Travels The World To End Child Marriage

Sonita Alizadeh — the Afghan teenager who escaped a teen marriage by writing a rap song about it — goes to a boarding high school in Utah, and is campaigning ag...

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Hollywood

Viola Davis Feels TV Lies About Women

Actress Viola Davis says TV lies about women and never shows females of a certain age or size as sexy. “We’ve been fed a whole slew of lies about women. If you ...

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Hollywood

Percentage of Female Directors Unchanged Despite ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ (Study)

Female directors such as “Pitch Perfect 2’s” Elizabeth Banks and “Fifty Shades of Grey’s” Sam Taylor-Johnson scored at the box office la...

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Festivals

Athena Film Festival: Abortion Providers Doc, 'Inside Out,' 'Truth' Highlight Lineup

The festival focused on female leadership will open with the New York premiere of reproductive rights documentary Trapped.The Athena Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled the...

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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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Health

Unintended Second Pregnancies Could Be Avoided

Reuters Health – Most unintended pregnancies within two years of a woman giving birth could have been prevented or postponed if women had access to the long-acting co...

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Trending

Indian Acid Attack Survivor Is New Face Of Fashion Brand

An Indian fashion retail brand has signed up prominent acid attack survivor and campaigner Laxmi Saa to be the face of its new range of designer outfits for women, in a cam...

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