Gender roles among the Mukkuvar fisherfolk

MUKKUVAR WOMEN -- GENDER, HEGEMONY AND CAPITALIST TRANSFORMATION IN A SOUTH INDIAN FISHING COMMUNITY Kalpana Ram Publisher: Kali for Women, Delhi …

I hate scavenging, but what else can I do?

Rameshwari has been working as a scavenger in the pilgrim town of Ajmer in Rajasthan for the last 15 years. She abhors her work, yet she does it …

Bringing technology to women

As part of women's welfare programmes, various NGOs are promoting the use of renewable and alternative energy.

Women's tales

THE HIDDEN STORY: A QUEST FOR WOMEN'S UNRECORDED HISTORY Shikhajhjngan and Ranjani Mazumdat Duration 58 minutes Betacam Institution, Rs ION / us $…

Spirit of Mandate 1996

Although women did not figure prominently in this year's elections, women power definitely proved to be a very heady potion for aspiring candidates

Going the bio way

The Biovillage project provides rural folk the finance and technical knowhow to cultivate for the market while conserving water and soil

Fostering change

The socioeconomic scenario of Panch Mahals in Gujarat has improved due to the active participation of tribal women in a forestry programme

Earlier the better

With rapid rise in the incidence of breast cancer, a new approach for early detection is welcome

Tying a green knot

In a small town in Chamoli district of Uttar Pradesh, a marriage is also a tree-planting occasion

Gender bias

Studies from Africa show that women are more prone to the aids virus than men. This will require reorientating drug research

Artificially real

Researchers develop artificial human eggs that will enable infertile women to have children with their genetic features

Missionary women doctors in nineteenth century Delhi

Throughout the 1860s a frail young European woman with a medicine chest was a conspicuous presence at the women's ghats of the river Yamuna in …

Jeevika 2003: About common people

What do people do when their livelihoods are threatened? How do they deal with a world that pushes them to the margins? Such issues were raised …

"Every ninth baby here suffers brain damage"

A woman with a mission. ORAL ATANVFAZOVA, at 39, finds herself in the midst of a salvage operation aimed at providing succour to the teeming …

Abused, abandoned, neglected: The plight of India’s older women

Restoring dignity in women’s labour can give older women the care and respect they deserve in late life

Anganwadi workers hit the streets in protest

Allege government failure in implementation of remuneration hike, other demands not met

Winners of India’s top science award announced, no women on the list

Since its inception in 1958, only 19 women scientists have been the recipients of the SSB award.  

Gender inequities worsen impact of cancer in women, finds Lancet Commission

Discrimination affects their rights and opportunities to avoid risk factors, ability to get timely diagnosis & quality care

The gender pay gap for the FIFA World Cup is $370 million. It’s time for equity

The lack of gender parity is evident in all stages of the popular game

Living in threat

Book Launch>>MEMOIR • Pakistan

Engendering global development

Woods for women

Poor rural women in India need easy access to and control over forests

Predicting miscarriage

Rice and easy

Checking breast cancer