Read this, and then do the maths: How many mango trees before he can count my tears?

In a distant, sleepy village in Uttar Pradesh, whose name I would have never heard had a lot of politicians and news TV's OB vans not landed there...

Read this, and then do the maths: How many mango trees before he can count my tears?

In a distant, sleepy village in Uttar Pradesh, whose name I would have never heard had a lot of politicians and news TV’s OB vans not landed there recently to bring i...

Climate change ‘single biggest hindrance’ to human development

The recently released Human Development Report has identified six major threats to human development and proposed a set of policies and reforms to address these vulnerabili...

Why India's sanitation Crisis kills Women

The gruesome rape and hanging of two teenage girls in the populous Uttar Pradesh state again proves how women have become the biggest victims of India’s sanitation cr...

Brazil’s sustainability tipping point – three lessons for success from the west

When it comes to sustainability, Brazilians should look around and learn from the apathy and advocacy in other markets In terms of mainstreaming sustainability, Brazil look...

“She Started It” Aims To Change Silicon Valley’s Gender Inequality Problem

A NEW FILM FOCUSES ON WHAT MAKES FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS SUCCEED--AND INSPIRES THE NEXT GENERATION OF GIRLS TO FOLLOW SUIT. ?You can?t be what you can?t see? said Marie Wilson...

Menlo Park Lab Offers Women Path To Entrepreneurship

“I have no fear,” said Jodi Murphy, 57, of San Mateo County, who joined the Women’s Startup Lab in February to build Geek Club Books, a storytelling app a...

Contours Of Inequality

Global estimates of the unmet energy needs in India have been available for some time. These only indicate whether the shoe pinches, if at all. In a new series of analyses ...

Empowering the poor or the rural elite?