Gender bias removed in clinical research

After years of discrimination, American women have won the right of equal representation in clinical research projects.

Blinded by figures

By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads …

Labourers become quarry managers

Women quarry-workers in Tamil Nadu's Pudukkottai district have formed cooperatives and are managing the same granite quarries where they once …

Indian farmers can take on the multinationals

Sharad Joshi, the well-known, controversial farm leader from Maharashtra, outlines a new strategy for agriculture.

Who will help her learn?

Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out …

Women build where others destroy

Why do women who attempt changes in local land use patterns meet with so much hostility?

Fishing fortunes

A unique fishing cooperative in Bihar's Madhubani district boosts the confidence and economic independence of the local women

Earnest endeavours

West Bengal's women panchayat members have become the torchbearers of rural development programmes in the state

Local politics

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Rural women are championing climate resilience in India

Chronicles from rural India provide a blueprint for a resilient future

COP27: The forgotten sustainable development goals

Some SDGs attract substantially less attention and resources from companies

Empowered by water: Women’s quality of life improves with household access to water supply

Women can save time to find avenues of additional income 

Menstrual hygiene in Africa: No pad or no way to dispose it

Women in sub-Saharan Africa still struggle to have a healthy and safe period

Electoral power of women

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Scare tactics

Violence mars Bihar’s efforts to empower women, promote self-governance

Zero hour

Do men fall ill more often than women?

GHANA

Rural burden

Women and forests

A study probes the role of women in afforestation programmes

Oily mess

The US environment protection agency pulls up polluting oil companies

Pregnancy and longevity

Risky decision

Three is company!

A fertility treatment spawns babies with the DNA of three parents, instead of two