Women who give birth later in life may live longer, says new study

The research may also be a clue as to why 85 per cent of women live to 100 or more years while only 15 per cent of men do

130 women leaders steal the limelight at UN climate show

With women and girls on the frontline of climate change, women leaders representing 54 nations met in New York to call on global leaders gathered …

The Woman King is more than an action movie – it shines a light on the women warriors of Benin

For some African feminists, African women have never been frail and defenceless

Google launches campaign to get 50 million women online by 2014 end

Initiative will focus on empowering women by enabling them to use Internet

Women play vital role in agrifood systems across Latin America and the Caribbean

In most rural households, women play a definitive role in agriculture and other allied activities. Thus, including women under the social …

International Women’s day: How Telangana’s women farm hands turned farmers

The concept of group farming in not new in the state but it had majorly been out of practice for some years now

Sub-Saharan Africa shows the way: A quarter of parliamentarians are women

In Mali, female representation in parliament increased by 19.5 percentage points; Burundi with 41% women parliamentarians in the upper house, …

Why pregnancy brings distress for women in Sierra Leone

A crumbling health system deters women from going to hospitals, making the West African country home to the world's highest maternal death rate

Nagaland tribal bodies are protesting reservation for women in local bodies

Women’s rights activists say that it shows the unwillingness of tribal bodies to share power

Nutrition in backyard gardens: Odisha’s tribal women show the way

The vegetable women grow not only help them eat healthy, but also sell surplus produce and make a living of their own  

Why do epilepsy drugs don’t work for some women? Scientists find out

A variation in a gene is responsible for some women to suffer from frequent epileptic seizures despite taking anti-epileptic drugs

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One in every 10 elderly Indian women underwent uterus removal: Survey

The proportion was highest in Punjab and Andhra Pradesh where at least one in five women above 45 had the surgery

As told to Parliament (March 15, 2023): Only 16% of India’s researchers are women

The total number of women researchers in the country is 56,747

How COVID-19 made forest rights battle tougher for Tharu women

The Adivasi women of Lakhimpur Khiri in eastern UP show resilience

Is Artificial Intelligence excluding Indian women smartphone users?

Making the effort to create solutions that take a gender lens to solution design, can aid digital inclusion for Indian women

95 per cent women in India involved in unpaid labour

Report says involving women in the workforce can help achieve future aspirations that can boost India’s GDP by 27 per cent

Women, on average, enjoy barely 77% of legal rights that men do: World Bank

World Bank’s ‘Women, Business and the Law Index’ says that women just entering the workforce will retire before they enjoy the …

In Africa, burden of water labour still lies on women

Over 14 million women and 3 million children spend more than 30 minutes collecting water in sub-Saharan Africa