A mother's love

A childless woman's search for emotional fulfilment through planting and nurturing saplingsby Malini Shankar

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 …

Stillborn in Africa: UN pegs number at a million every year

Situation has worsened in 2 decades, may slip further due to COVID-19 pandemic, warns Unicef report

2024 Lok Sabha polls: With almost 50% electorate, women voters to drive elections this year

In recent times, women-based welfare schemes have played a major role in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh polls

What is in the Union Budget 2021-22 for children? Not much

The budget continues to deprive pregnant women, lactating mothers and children from vital benefits of schemes and interventions 

Limited toilet access, unsanitary facilities may be behind high urinary incontinence burden in sub-Saharan African women

Study on 175 people in Kenya and Nigeria claims number could be as high as 1 in 5 women

Doesn't gel

Smoking hearts

Running the show

Women effect a remarkable change in two districts of backward Bundelkhand

Women in workforce: Low participation majorly due to gender discrimination, says new Oxfam report

Participation rate for women fell to 25% in 2021 from 43% in 2004-05

India’s tribal village infrastructure in a shambles

75% without access to healthcare, 51% without PDS, 52% without piped water

Contraceptive chaos

Copper-T better in emergency, but doctors do not encourage its use

Too big for the Third World's pocket

Women engineers come to the forefront

Literacy as a yardstick of social health

Fencing in territory, fencing out inequality

... the Adivasi woman is no longer a silent observer of the issues bothering her for ages

Coffee brake

Life-span differences

Treating cervical cancer

Radiation therapy and chemotherapy can halve cervical cancer deaths among women

Women at work

No woman, no cry?

Women, youth incur higher farm income losses due to heat stress, floods: FAO report

This happens because their capacity to react and adapt to extreme weather events is unequal

The women who appear in Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ are finally getting their due, 700 years later

A project regarding researching and composing Wikipedia entries on Dante’s (female) characters has doubled as advocacy

Caroline Herschel was the first female astronomer, but she still lacks name recognition two centuries later

Her story reflects not only the priorities of astronomy but also how credit is assigned in the field

Hammer and tongs: These women in Uttarakhand’s Lohaghat forge and make their own iron products

Women self-help groups in the Lohaghat tehsil have revived the traditional occupation of ironworking, dominated in the past by men