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

Lok Sabha passes Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill; paid leaves increase

Women with two surviving children will now be entitled to increased maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks

47 per cent of Indian women still marry before 18, says new Lancet Report on adolescent health

It also says that the rate of rural Indian girls marrying before 18 years is twice that of their urban counterparts

Centuries-old obsession

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Ambitious cure for an ailing system

US President Bill Clinton has proposed an ambitious and complex programme to lower federal expenditure on health care and revamp the existing system.

A primitive trend practised the world over

The ancient Greeks and Romans attached a high social premium to males and resorted to strange ways of determining the sex of the unborn child.

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?

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

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 

COP27: The forgotten sustainable development goals

Some SDGs attract substantially less attention and resources from companies

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