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Sisva In Gujarat Has An All Women Panchayat: They Are Delivering Results What Generations Have Failed

Sisva in Gujarat has an all women panchayat, led by 26 year old Hinal Patel. These girls are not only breaking stereotypes, but delivering results.  In a country, wher...

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Gender

If You Can See It, You Can Be It

‘If you see it, you can be it’ could have been the unofficial slogan of the International Development Cooperation meeting on Gender and Media, where I was invit...

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Gender

Most Toy Adverts Are ‘Sexist’ And Show ‘Narrow And Limiting’ Gender Stereotypes, Study Warns

The majority of adverts for children’s toys  are “sexist” and reinforce “narrow and limiting” gender stereotypes according...

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Top 5

Behind The Ghunghat

Is it possible to have a conversation around Gender and Sexuality vis-à-vis television content? I would say NO! Indian television is still in its infancy regards cre...

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Thought Factory

Initiating A Dialogue Toward Inclusive Identities

“When was the first time you realised that you were a boy or a girl?”
This was one of the initial questions asked to ten year ol...

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Gender

Future Babies Don’t Sway Career Path In College.

A new study aims to debunk the idea that future family plans sort male and female college students into different careers. Despite decades of efforts to banish the idea of ...

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Hollywood

How This Googler Is Trying To Shake Up Hollywood’s Idea Of Who An ‘Engineer’ Is?

Julie Ann Crommett describes her job as a “tech-and-Hollywood hybrid.”
She’s Google’s entertainment industry educator-in-chief, striving to ban...

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Festivals

Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival 2015

The Assassin will screen on November 27 & 28. Photo: BAPFF 2015. The Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival 2015 looks set to be a jam-packed event focusing on explor...

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Gender

Do Women Get More Credit For Leadership?

Research on women who demonstrate stereotypically male behaviors at work has yielded mixed findings. On the one hand, some studies suggest those women are less liked and ev...

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Bollywood

9 Of The Strongest Women Characters That Bollywood Has Produced!

In a patriarchal society as ours and a largely male-dominated industry as Bollywood, rarely do you find some great roles written for women. And respect for the ladies? Even...

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