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The Women of New York?s City Hall

With Manhattan still cloaked in early-morning darkness, New York City’s new sanitation commissioner stepped into a semicircle of 40 men holding brooms and dustpans as...

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Hollywood

No Female Directors Allowed? New Summer Movie Season, Same Sad Story

Helming a summer blockbuster can do wonders for one’s career With the start of another summer movie season brimming with extravagantly budgeted tent-pole features, an...

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Beating The Odds To Become First Female Chief Nuclear Officer

There are nine men for every woman in nuclear engineering. NPR’s Rachel Martin talks to Maria Korsnick, the first female chief nuclear officer in the U.S., about her ...

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Hollywood

Lights, camera, inaction: women directors cut out of British TV

New report finds that a third of popular TV shows have never hired a female director – and the total may even be falling In a recent research project, Directors UK an...

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Bollywood

Film makers throng to Jagran Film Festival 2014

14th May 2014: Hardly had Jagran Film Festival opened its call for entries, it ended up receiving hundreds ofentries in the first phase itself. The Festiva...

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Sustainable Development

Women politicians in India, Pak face violence, threats

From kidnapping, physical assault and sexual harassment to threats, abuse and character assassination, women politicians in India, Pakistan and Nepal face hostility and agg...

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Bollywood

Shabana Azmi: 'The empowerment of women is important'

Shabana Azmi has said violence against women should not be tolerated. The actress was speaking at a discussion forum about female empowerment at the recent IIFA awards, in ...

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Hollywood

Cannes: 15 Women Directors, Tame Dragons and Ryan Gosling’s First Time

The abysmal state of affairs for female directors in Hollywood got a tiny glimmer of hope in Paris this week, as the Cannes Film Festival announced its lineup: a group incl...

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Hollywood

Victoria Beckham designs dresses for charity

Model-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham creates matching mother-daughter outfits to raise money for charity that aims to end the transmission of HIV from mothers to ...

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Bollywood

Shabana Azmi thanks Bollywood stars for helping out at IIFA social event

Veteran actress and social activist Shabana Azmi has thanked Bollywood actors Anil Kapoor, Sidharth Malhotra and Sonakshi Sinha for agreeing to walk the ramp for her NGO at...

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