Women’s Day 2024: Why empowering half of humanity serves dividends

When we empower women, we tap into the full potential of humanity, paving the way for a more just, equitable and sustainable world for all

These women near Delhi’s Bhalswa landfill are growing greens in their backyards with a purpose

They are doing so as part of an initiative to improve women and girls’ access to nutrition; the vegetables are grown with natural inputs

Not BJP, not Congress: Women voters are real winners today

The results to the elections to the five state legislative assemblies underscore how women play an increasingly important role in India’s …

Women to the fore

Universal access to childcare: How stakeholders can come together to strengthen India’s network of creches

There is substantial untapped potential to enhance coordination with various other government departments and ministries, such as those for rural …

95 per cent women in India involved in unpaid labour

Report says involving women in the workforce can help achieve future aspirations that can boost India’s GDP by 27 per cent

10 years of Delhi gang rape: 70% of released Nirbhaya Funds utilised, Lok Sabha told

Region-wise disparities in fund utilisation; Conviction rate in crimes against women continues to remain abysmal 

Google launches campaign to get 50 million women online by 2014 end

Initiative will focus on empowering women by enabling them to use Internet

Women farmers emerging as decision-makers, innovators in wheat-based systems: Study

Women adopted specific strategies to further their interests in the context of wheat-based livelihoods, challenging men as sole decision-makers, …

Violence against women with disabilities and older women goes unseen: WHO advocates for urgent action

Older women and women with disabilities can be extremely isolated when violence occurs, complicating their ability to seek help and report the abuse

Every third woman faces violence by men: WHO

Younger women and those in least developed countries most at risk

Drop ‘patriarchal, sexist’ 2-finger test from medical syllabus: Supreme Court

The two-finger test is an invasive, unscientific and regressive practice used in rape cases to gauge whether a person is sexually active or a virgin

How the American dream has treated demands for reproductive autonomy through history

Pre-1840, abortion was accessible and stigma-free for most  

What does NFHS-5 data tell us about state of women empowerment in India

All women work but only a few are salaried: Only 25.4% of women aged 15-49 years who worked in the last 12 months were paid in cash

What India can learn from Bangladesh about closing its gender gap

Post-1971, Bangladesh embarked on an inclusive development strategy involving various non-government stakeholders, religious bodies and aid …

International Women’s day: How Telangana’s women farm hands turned farmers

The concept of group farming in not new in the state but it had majorly been out of practice for some years now

Slaves experimented on by ‘father of gynaecology’: A call to acknowledge their past

Young black girls were branded breeders in mid-1850s and forced to undergo torture in the form gynaecological experiments

Why it’s so difficult to end female genital mutilation

Knowledge of local culture crucial, argues author of Global Perspectives on Violence against Women and Girls

Exclusion errors: Decoding the female face of agricultural crisis

Without empowering women in farming by recognising them as farmers and giving them land rights, agriculture can’t be sustained and so can&…

Women water activists gather in Kathmandu to exchange notes

About 100 women from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe attend the first Women and Rivers Congress

About 23 per cent girls drop out of school on reaching puberty

The report emphasises the need to normalise menstruation by looking at behaviour, infrastructure, politics and perception

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