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Indonesia Push To Teach Gender Equality In Schools Amid Rising Violence Against Women

IN the face of rising violence against female students, an Indonesian state commission has called for changes in the national school curriculum to promote gender equality a...

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Human Rights

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...

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Kaleidoscope

Echoes of The Past

At the present, when Donald Trump’s America is flexing its racist muscles and angling for a possible war, David Baldacci’s new book, No Man’s Land critici...

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Thought Factory

Women and Work

“Historic imbalances in power relations between men and women, exacerbated by growing inequalities within and between societies and countries, are leading to greater ...

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Hollywood

Jane Fonda Speaks Of Abuse, And Her ‘Disease To Please’

Jane Fonda attending the red carpet arrivals at the 19th Costume Designers Guild awards presented by Lacoste at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, on February 21, 2...

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Festivals

A Festival Of Films For Her

The heroine’s role in India’s first ever film was not played by a woman, but a man. In Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra (1913), the character of Quee...

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Bollywood

'It's My Body.' This Video By Actors Swara Bhaskar, Taapsee Pannu Has Gone Viral

In the beginning, it masquerades as a video giving you helpful style tips. How much cleavage is too much, after all, is a question women ask all too often. By the time the ...

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Hollywood

Britney Spears Designed New Fragrance To Empower Women

Singer Britney Spears says that her latest perfume Fantasy makes women feel "empowered, flirtatious and sexy". Spears says she loves making new scents because she believes ...

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Health

India Got Healthier In Last 10 Years: Survey

India's health indicators show significant improvement over the last decade with a decline in infant mortality complimented by a better sex ratio, more institutional delive...

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Gender

Japan’s Gender-Bending History

I’m an anthropologist who grew up in Japan and has lived there, off and on, for 22 years. Yet every visit to Tokyo’s Harajuku District still surprises me. In th...

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