Measuring The Millennium Development Goals: Cutting Maternal Deaths

Becoming a mother in sub-Saharan Africa is more dangerous than climbing Mount Everest. In Chad, the odds of dying during pregnancy or childbirth are one in 15; in Sierra Le...

Can Quotas Help Tackle The Confidence Gender Gap?

Quotas — in politics, business, or education — are a heavy-handed way to banish gender discrimination. They increase female representation, but at wha...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

Mexico's Morelia Film Festival Builds Warm Community of Cinephiles

Glowing reports from the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia
(FICM) inspired me to fly down to Michoacan in late October for the
13th edition. I was not dis...

Why Catherine Hardwicke Started to Fight Back Against Hollywood Sexism.

Catherine Hardwicke recently stormed the red carpet of her latest indie, “Miss You Already,” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. With her male publicist c...

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...

India May Lose Rs 46 Lakh Crore Due To Gender Inequality: McKinsey

Discrimination against women is not new in India; it’s an historical phenomenon. You will be surprised to know that for the same amount of work, women are paid 62% le...

Geena Davis: Kudos To Jennifer Lawrence, But Women In Hollywood Have A Long Way To Go.

The Oscar-winning actress, who runs the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, writes about how women’s representation in Hollywood has remained static since 1946....

New Kind Of 'Designer' Immune Cells Clear Baby's Leukemia

A baby whom doctors thought almost certain to die has been cleared of a previously incurable leukemia in the first human use of an “off-the-shelf” cell therapy ...