Gender

India's First Transband: Don't Hide Us Away, Don't Keep Us In A Cage

KomalJagtap used to work as a wedding singer in India. For about 5,000 rupees (£52), she would dance and sing when people got married or wanted to celebrate a birth. But...

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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 rather ...

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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 the...

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Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman Is The Badass Superhero We Deserve

The suits and architects of the DC movie universe may be wringing their hands over the critical beatdown Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice is getting, but there’s a si...

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Menstrual Cycle Still A Barrier To Achieve Gender Equality

Adolescent girls in developing countries miss schools for at least five days every month — 60 days in a year during their menstrual cycle due to the lack of access to sa...

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Letting India's Women Own Land

This month, 600 women gathered under a huge blue-and-yellow-striped tent in Baripada, a small city in Odisha, a state in India’s east. They were among India’s most...

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Bhutan Tackles Violence Against Women For "Refusing Sex, Burning The Dinner"

Sonam Zangmo endured abuse at the hands of her husband for two years before finally walking out on him after the birth of her daughter."He used to lay his hands on me at every...

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Resistant Is Gender Equality A Design Problem?

Simple redesigns of working life can make big differences in helping women overcome institutional biases. Because humans are naturally biased—we evolved to use stereotyp...

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Gender- Dasra Report: Non-Profits In India Fail To Address The Gender Gap

The Companies Act 2013 mandated that a publicly listed company, which has five or more directors, must have at least one woman director. Even when surveys show that companies ...

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Activists Call On World Leaders To Make Gender Equality Pledge A Reality

World leaders must back up their pledge to end gender inequality with concrete commitments on how they plan to empower women, said activists preparing for the UN Commission on...

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PRESERVING JAMSHEDPUR'S LIVING LEGACY

The Parsis of Jamshedpur: Prof. Dr. Avinash Kolhe explores the rich legacy of Jamshedpur...

June 22 2026

THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM AT THE TABLE

As debates around immigration, citizenship and belonging intensify worldwide, Vinta Nand...

June 21 2026

AI, CREATIVITY AND PURPOSE UNITE

From AI-powered filmmaking education and innovative talent recruitment to empathy-driven...

June 20 2026