Women Empowerment Will Make Sense When All Women Get Equal Opportunities: Sharmila Tagore

For veteran Bollywood actor Sharmila Tagore, celebration of ‘women empowerment’ or simply saying that today women are no less than men would make more sense whe...

Sweden To Modernize Law On Changing Gender

At present Swedish law states that transgender people must go through a medical procedure before they can have their gender change legally recognized, but the government no...

Activists, Celebrities And Governments Call To End Global Gender Pay Gap

The UN General Assembly in New York, has unveiled champions of equal pay took, putting forth a clarion call to end the global gender pay gap that stands at 23 per cent. The...

Not So Accessible After All

Irony: a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result. Now that we have the definition of irony ...

UN Chief Calls For More Men To Stand Up For Gender Equality

The world needs more women leaders and men standing up for gender equality, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said while asserting that the empowerment of women is about breaki...

Shilpa Lends Grace To Women Empowerment Gala

Bollywood actress and entrepreneur Shilpa Shetty-Kundra attended women empowerment gala held here to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 3. It turned out to ...

After Her Husband’s Death, Shanno Begum Defied Odds to Become Delhi’s First Woman Uber Driver

“My name is Shanno Begum from Delhi.”

Thus begins a video telling the story of an extraordinary woman who overcame the impossible to become the first wo...

INTERVIEW-India honors former child maid who saved hundreds others

NEW DELHI, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 21-year-old Indian woman, trafficked and enslaved as a child maid, was given a "Women Power" award by the president on W...

Iceland Becomes First Country In The World To Require Gender Pay Equality

Yesterday, Iceland became the first country in the world to introduce mandatory equal pay. On International Women’s Day, the Nordic nation announced their plans to fo...