If more women contest the elections, it does not mean that they will all become legislators. But to go by the All India Congress Committee general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, women’s polit...

Sir — The appeal sent by the Maharashtra chief minister, Uddhav Thackeray, to the Central government to lower the age of Covid-19 vaccination for Indians to 25 should be paid heed to by the prim...

In a precipitous slide, India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, 2021, becoming the third-worst performer in Sou...

India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2021, becoming the third-worst performer in South Asia. According to the repor...

Oft-ignored factors can make a marked difference in the quality of human life in urban settlements. This was borne out by the findings of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, w...

A band of bold women is outing alleged predators in newsrooms in the country while another group of women is hitting the streets to bar their gender from the Sabarimala temple in Kerala.In the middle ...

Menstrual taboo, discrimination in property inheritance, gender stereotyping from birth — films made on a host of gender-based issues by 24 youngsters from eastern and north-eastern India and Bangl...

Sir — In a touching gesture of communal amity, a local church in Kothamangalam in Kerala threw its gates open to hundreds of Muslim protesters who had come marching from 10 kilometres away to voice ...

India has slipped four places to rank 112th globally among 153 countries in terms of gender gap amid widening disparity in terms of women’s health and survival and economic participation — two par...

The latest ranking of nations made by the United Nations Development Programme according to the human development index puts India in the 130th position out of 189 countries. This is a marginal improv...