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Why It's So Hard For Women To Figure Out What To Wear To Work In 2017

In 1985, Donna Karan launched a collection centered on what she called her seven easy pieces. It offered working women a stylish, flattering capsule wardrobe that could be ...

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Gender

Rupi Kaur: I Was Sick Of Being Silent All The Time

Poet Rupi Kaur used Instagram to build a captive audience for her poetry about survival, womanhood, abuse, love and loss - with 1.3 million followers and counting. She expl...

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Gender

The Gender Wars Of Household Chores: A Feminist Comic

The French comic artist Emma illustrates the concept of the ‘mental load’. When a man expects his partner to ask him to do things, he is viewing her as the mana...

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Human Rights

What's Keeping Indian Women From Working

India has one of the largest populations of working people in the world, but a recent report has found that fewer women are now entering the workforce. Today, just one in f...

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Gender

Helen Mirren On Why She Resisted Calling Herself A Feminist At First

Though Helen Mirren emphatically calls herself a feminist now, she admits she's resisted the term in the past. Making the commencement speech at Tulane University in New Or...

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Bollywood

Empower Women To Make Society Progress: Shabana

Celebrated actor vouches for creating support groups Celebrated Bollywood actor Shabana Azmi said she learnt an important lesson from her father which stays with her. She s...

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Human Rights

Why Are Millions Of Indian Women Dropping Out Of Work?

The numbers are stark - for the first time in India's recent history, not only was there a decline in the female labour participation rate, but also a shrinking of the tota...

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Bollywood

Hema Malini Just Dropped A Truth Bomb About Sexism In Bollywood

How sexist is Bollywood? Now that's pretty much a rhetorical question. So when actress Hema Malini addressed the issue in an interview with Mumbai Mirror, it really didn't ...

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Human Rights

The Case Of Triple Talaq

“Can what is sinful in the eyes of God be lawful? If God considers it a sin, it can’t be legal. Can it be?” Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar’s que...

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Bollywood

Shabana: Long Way From Being Perfect, But A Start Has Been Made

Veteran actor Shabana Azmi is quite impressed with the kind of roles that female actors are portraying in films these days. She says, in the past, heroines were merely addi...

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