The female gaze

Know your onions!

JFM panels empowered

Malefactor

Sharing knowledge

Back to school

In Short

A great sweep

Feisty women hill broom gatherers force the forest department to relent in a Orissa village

Human touch in credit

The growth of a women's group that moved from being a savings unit to a social voice

Success in a fistful of rice

Women come to the rescue of a village burdened by drought

Agricultural land rights for women

Also, share in joint family property; new bill passed

From the blurbs

Mother's little helper

Emic perspective of Indian food reveals untold stories of migrant labourers, women, cattle

Food anthropologist Ishita Dey on how migrant labourers adapt their diets during their long train journeys and how sugar is key even in a more …

Female genital mutilation leads to over 40,000 excess deaths in Africa annually: Research

The practice still remains legal in five of the 28 countries where it is most practiced namely Mali, Malawi, Chad, Sierra Leone, and Liberia

Maputo Protocol contributed towards Africa’s progress on gender equality, but growth uneven: Report

Protocol considered one of the world’s most progressive legal frameworks for women’s rights; was launched 20 years ago

‘It’s her job’: In water-starved Chambua near Udaipur, women are disproportionately affected

The act of filling water, too, sets the norm of who collects it and who gets to consume the most of it

Pine needles & leaves have made these Himachal women self-sufficient; here is how

They use abundantly available pine needles to weave items of everyday use and decor, earning a handsome monthly income 

A void that cannot be filled: SEWA founder Ela Bhatt dies in Ahmedabad

Ela Bhatt founded SEWA in 1972, which has since blazed a trail in empowering women in various ways

Women have always trailed men in research output: How COVID made the situation worse

A survey of public varsities in South Africa showed female academics faced a massive burden of caring for dependants during the pandemic 

International Women’s Day: Why 2021 shines bright for gender parity at parliaments in Sub-Saharan Africa

In the 48 countries around the world that held parliamentary elections in 2021, women candidates won 28.6% of the new seats

Timely COVID-19 vaccination of pregnant women important: WHO

Pregnant women not at a higher risk of being infected with novel coronavirus, but are more susceptible to severe disease, flags WHO

Raising marital age of women: Smashing patriarchy or further regression?

The proposed law to raise the marital age of Indian women is not very productive in the attainment of better health and education health status&…

World Human Rights Day: Is an India free of witch-hunts possible

Cases of witch-branding have been reported from 12 states in India; some 2,300 ‘witches’ were murdered between 1999 and 2003

Specialized cells maintain healthy pregnancy by teaching the mother’s immune system not to attack developing fetus

How does the immune system generally learn what to attack and what not to attack? A study tries to find out