‘Mobile Girls Koottam' is a witty take on complex issues facing women workers today

If you are feeling a little cynical about politics lately, this book might be just the right dose of magic to push you out of the rut

Long COVID: Female sex, older age and existing health problems increase risk, say new research

Symptoms can include fatigue, breathlessness, difficulty concentrating and many more – but the precise nature of the symptoms is not well …

‘More women reach extreme ages than men’

Down To Earth speaks to Michael Pearce from the University of Washington in the United States about the possibility that the world record for …

Bihar Elections 2020: A mandate against status quo?

The verdict indicated a tipping point in people’s tolerance for rhetoric; it also exhibited a rare consolidation of the youth 

No end to discrimination against Punjab’s Dalit women labourers, says study

A recent study examined 927 Dalit women labour households across four districts. A lot of them reeled under debt, faced sexual harassment 

What Delhi can learn from others about free public transport

India’s capital could learn from other countries and cities who have already implemented the measure

Safeguarding women after disasters: some progress, but not enough

Sexual exploitation must be recognised as a real and widespread problem. There must be staff and management accountability.

Many Indian women denied mobile phones to keep them 'pure'

A study finds a 33 per cent gender gap in access to mobile phones in India that is inhibiting women’s earnings

Indian scientists develop environment-friendly device to dispose sanitary napkins

GreenDispo will incinerate the sanitary napkins completely with minimal flue gas emission

Poor access to support systems causes high mortality among women with burn injuries

About 100,000 women die of burn injuries in India every year, and most of the deaths happen due to inadequate support service

Mammograms linked to overdiagnosis, overtreatment of breast cancer: study

Women are unnecessarily treated with anti-cancer therapies, including chemotherapy, for tumours that would never have caused a health problem

Study links violence to early signs of heart, blood vessel diseases in women

Victims of physical violence were one and a half times more likely to suffer from narrowing of the main blood vessels in the neck that carry …

Male underdevelopment

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Toiling unsung

Rural women manage the family and the field, yet most development programmes target just the male farmer

Shame puts the cork back in liquor bottles

Campaigns by women have been successful in curbing alcoholism among their menfolk in Manipur and Andhra Pradesh, but similar efforts have failed …

Helping women irks men in Haryana district

A non-govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.

Taking the magic out of miracles

Promoting a more rationalist attitude to life at a mass level, that's what the Jan Vigyan Jatha sets out to do

If words were deeds

If a recently-held seminar on the Girl Child in the capital is any indication, her plight is not going to improve in a hurry.

Saved from the axe

Spirited village women in Himachal Pradesh save a clump of deodar trees from being chopped by mercenary woodcutters.

Babies made to order

A furore over the ethics of the new eugenics-reproduction technologies that could create 'designer' babies-has the medical community worldwide in …

On Eve's of footsteps

The Beijing Conference on Women was a revelation of the 20th Century woman's status vis-a-vis environment and other issues

Work-outs that work

Medical researchers in the US now insist that previous regimens, prescribing heavy exercise for women, are actually harmful

Watch your waistline

Hormone replacement therapy after menopause could lower the risk of getting heart diseases, advocates' a new study

Mother and natureboth?

DISCUSSION PAPER: GENDER, ENVIRONMENT AND POVERTY INTERLINKS IN RURAL INDIA: REGIONAL VARIATIONS AND TEMPORAL SHIFTS, 1971-1991 Bina Agarwal . …

The clot and the pill

Women using latest versions of birth control pills stand a higher risk of developing blood clots