Residents of a Jharkhand village with a skewed sex ratio have decided to install house nameplates carrying the names of their daughters to promote gender equality. Sixty families at Bharatia village ...

Students across Afghanistan have started returning to university for the first time since the Taliban stormed to power, and in some cases females have been separated from their male peers by curtains ...

Dressed in my favourite grey shorts and tee I had walked up to the basement elevator of a mall. I was headed for a night show and clad in comfy-wear. The elevator had room for many more even after my ...

Breaking the gender stereotypes, Akanksha Kumari, a 25-year-old mining graduate from BIT Sindri has earned the distinction of being the first woman in the history of Coal India to be working in an und...

Sir — On Wednesday, the Congress leader, Shashi Tharoor, was discharged by a sessions court in Delhi in connection with the sensationalized case of the death of his wife, Sunanda Pushkar (&ldquo...

With her school closed for over a year and little to do at home, 15-year-old Shahida (name changed) started spending more time on social media. Soon, the teenager was in a relationship with a 24-year...

From shorts versus bikini bottoms to full length body suits and leotards, Tokyo Olympics 2020 has been ridden with controversies (and contradictions) about what women athletes should or should not wea...

Laws alone cannot correct institutionalized gender bias; people must have a genuine desire for justice too. A direction by the Bombay High Court exposed ways in which gender bias functions in implemen...

Girl students enrolled from pre-primary to class 12 in West Bengal schools have outnumbered boys, according to a central government survey. The dropout rate among girls is also lower than the boys in...

The webinar saw speakers discuss issues of gender and sexuality in art, poetry, lyrics, literature, schools and policy-making. The last of these sessions also saw a talk moderated by Reena with Tendai...