Gender diversity - Companies Pull Women Managers Out Of Pink Ghettoes

Gender diversity - Companies Pull Women Managers Out Of Pink Ghettoes

MUMBAI: Bringing women managers out of `pink ghettoes' and proactively deploying them in impor...

Will Toys Ever Go Beyond Blue and Pink?

Products marketed to children are more divided by gender stereotypes than ever, but the Internet is increasingly offering alternatives to Hot Wheels and Barbies.
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The Gender Beat: South Asian Women Earn 80% Less Than Men; Kerala’s First Woman Boat Master

A new study published by the international organisation Action Aid titled The Price of Privilege: Extreme Wealth, Unaccountable Power and the Fight for Equality in the 21st...

Climate Change Is Not Gender-Neutral

It is well established that the poor are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and that women—who account for the majority of the world’s poor&mdash...

Kaleidoscope - Glimpses Of Kabul

Western women who do not have to live under oppressive conditions in strictly patriarchal countries like Afghanistan tend to romantisize the country's beauty and the nobili...

Why Terms Like ‘Transgender’ Don’t Work For India’s ‘Third-Gender’ Communities

Sexuality's spectrum is littered with labels. One that is getting increased attention in the U.S. political discourse nowadays is "transgender." Generally speaking, the lab...

In Portraits: Indian Women In Never-Seen-Before Avatar

In the summer of 2012, Nimisha Bhanot discovered her fondness for portraits. The 27-year-old Canadian visual artist didn’t want to paint just any kind of portraiture&...

Target To Allow Transgender People To Use Bathroom Of Their Choice

Wading into the contentious national debate about the rights of transgender people, Target said on Tuesday that transgender workers and customers can use the restroom that ...

Inside Pakistan's Gender-Fluid Hijra Community

In conservative Pakistan, where religious extremists wage continuous battles against the government in the name of a strict interpretation of Islam, male cross-dressers, tr...