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Are Quotas The Way To Get Women To The Top?

As a young, ambitious British lawyer, Cherie Blair was firmly against imposing quotas to help advance women’s careers but 30 years later she is happy to admit she was...

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Overcoming Culture: Can India Eliminate Gender Violence?

Just over a month ago on September 25th, the 193 member countries of the United Nations voted on and approved the new 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the hop...

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India To Review Personal Laws For Muslims ‘To Rectify Gender Biases’

India’s supreme court has announced that it will review the country’s personal law code for Muslims, in what it says is an attempt to rectify any biases against...

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Supreme Court Sets 2005 Cut-Off On Women Right To Ancestral Property

The court said the father would have had to be alive on September 9, 2005, if the daughter were to become a co-sharer with her male siblings. In a ruling that will restrict...

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Gender

How Street Plays & Theatre Are Raising The Curtain On Violence Against Women In UP

Domestic violence, sexual harassment and dowry cases are not really news in the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh. But a few compassionate activists and organizations are taking...

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Gender

The Ethics Of Commercial Surrogacy: Gender Inequality Arguments

This is a follow-up to the previous post on Debra Satz’s analysis of commercial surrogacy. In that post, I reviewed three classic objections to surrogacy and presente...

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Retroscope

Meena Kumari - A Legend

Meena Kumari’s rags to riches saga has a poignant edge to it. Dubbedthe greatest tragedienne of the Indian screen, her doomed personal life flashing with deep tragedy...

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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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Gender

Why Age Discrimination Is Worse For Women

It’s something that’s started to get on peoples’ nerves in pop culture: Hollywood seems totally open to older male actors, but aside from the Helen Mirren...

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Gender

That Which Is Rarely Discussed: The Patriarchy With In The Naxalbari Movement

The Naxalite uprising has been since its inception a war waged against the class enemies. Charu Majumder, the frontrunner of the Naxalbari movement declared his “anni...

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