feminism

Kajol belongs to a family of actors and indeed has been influenced by really strong women - be it her mother Tanuja or grand mother Shobhana Samarth. Largely known for playing Sita in ‘Bharat Milap’, Shobhana is considered one of the finest…

This was exactly what Ruth Handler had hoped to do when she created Barbie in 1959. She noticed that most dolls of that era were either babies or toddlers and, apparently upon observing her daughter’s fascination with paper dolls of career…

Almost one year after the fall of Roe v. Wade, the risk of more “backsliding” of sexual and reproductive rights around the world is real — and Canada needs to do more to “scale up” its support, a parliamentary committee is urging in a…

<!-- -->The spectacular hillside village has safeguarded this centuries-old tradition.Karpathos, Greece: "Here it is women who command!" declared Rigopoula Pavlidis, as she sang the virtues of her remote village on the island of…

The government has created gender quotas in certain industries to try to unravel this system of gendered citizenship. For instance, some government jobs have minimum gender quotas for new hires, and the government encourages the private…

CNN  —  Colombian police are investigating an acid attack perpetrated against a human rights activist, Lilia Patricia Cardozo, in the country’s northwestern Boyaca region,…

মারাঠি অভিনেত্রী সোনালি কুলকার্নি বিস্ফোরক মন্তব্য করে বসলেন ভারতীয় মহিলাদের নিয়ে। সম্প্রতি একটি ইভেন্টে গিয়ে তিনি জেন্ডার ইকুয়ালিটি নিয়ে কথা বলেছেন। সেখানে তিনি যে মন্তব্য রেখেছেন তাতে অনেকেই সহমত পোষণ করেছেন। শুধু সহমত না করতালি…

During a speech given on International Woman’s Day, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the decision to put forward a bill enshrining abortion rights in the country's constitution. Despite being lauded by…

In a first for France, the University of Angers has announced plans for a museum of feminist struggles, drawing on its ample archival resources and expertise to give the history of women’s fight for emancipation and…

"Abhi na jao chhod kar ke dil abhi bhara nahin…" the anthemic love ballad from Hum Dono, regarded as one of the finest love songs ever composed for Hindi cinema, rings through your heart after the lengthy film is done .Whether it is…