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Girls Start Doubting Their Own Brilliance As Young As 6, Researchers Say

Young girls are less likely to think they’re “really, really smart” compared to their male counterparts as early as the age of 6, according to a new study...

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Right For Men, Left For Women: Gendered Buttons Still A Thing.

Buttons have existed as a way of fastening clothes since thousands of years BC, but over the last few millennia no one’s been able to explain the provenance of a rath...

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Gender

How Masculinity Is Killing Men

All of the oldest living people in the world are women. On average, men die five years sooner than women, and they also are more likely to die from cancer. While some have ...

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Environment

A Long Walk For Water

Members of 82.2% rural households in Chhattisgarh walk almost 500m a day to fetch drinking water, which means they cover a distance equivalent to that between Gurgaon and A...

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Human Rights

More Than 40 Percent Of India's Women Confined To Domestic Work, Report Says

Women are among the most excluded groups in India, with almost 43 percent of working-age women confined to domestic work, while many who do work outside the home face explo...

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Gender

It’s Time For Gender-Free Pronouns

A teacher is a teacher, whether male or female, a novelist is a novelist, but a ballerina is distinguishable from a male dancer. And there is a tendency to call a person on...

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Gender

Gender-al verse

Piku, among other films released in 2015, stands testimony to the shifting of tides in Bollywood lyrics — broken stereotypes and more
As #FeministBolly-Songs tak...

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Gender

Gender-Based Violence Prevention In The Classroom Is Just A Start

Tasmania in announcing plans to roll out “respectful relationship” education in primary and secondary schools in an effort to curb gender-based violence. How fa...

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Gender

Retailers Should Ditch “Men’s” And “Women’s” Departments And Embrace Genderless Fashion.

Gendered fashion is on the way out. Fashion designers are mixing menswear and womenswear on the runway. Parents are pushing for genderless clothing that allows little girls...

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