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When doctors fail rape survivors in accessing justice

July 17, 2018 2:40:45 pm

#GenderAnd: At the heart of insensitivity of doctors is the lack of medical training. The MBBS courses in India do not educate students on laws related to rape, sexual assault and other gender issues.

The trauma of fathers, husbands, sons of rape survivors

July 12, 2018 11:59:35 am

#GenderAnd: Families have a critical role to play in a rape survivor’s recovery, and they too need support to cope with the trauma

BBC apologises to senior female journalist for underpaying her

June 29, 2018 6:38:53 pm

Gracie quit because the two editors earned more than her 135,000 pounds-a-year salary. She went back to a job in the newsroom.

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Our entire journey an example of breaking all stereotypes: INSV Tarini crew

May 27, 2018 2:06:35 pm

From Fremantle in Australia to Cape Town in South Africa, the expedition under project Navika Sagar Parikrama took halts at five ports across the globe.

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Govt proposes amendment of POCSO Act to make it gender-neutral

April 28, 2018 8:05:08 pm

Such a study was last conducted in 2007 by the WCD Ministry that focused on child sexual abuse, where it was learnt that 53.2 per cent of children had been subject to one or more form of sexual abuse. Of this, 52.9 per cent were boys.

Women in India make on-average 16 pc less than men: Report

Women in India make on-average 16% less than men: Report

April 27, 2018 4:46:54 pm

In India, when evaluating the same job level, the gap is 4 per cent, and when considering the same level at the same company, the gap fell to 0.4 per cent.

Around the globe in seven months: Despatches from the INSV Tarini

April 25, 2018 10:17:26 am

#GenderAnd: The all-female crew of the INSV Tarini will return to India after circumnavigating the globe

Some male sexual assault victims feel left behind by #MeToo

April 19, 2018 10:52:16 am

According to MaleSurvivor, a significant portion of abuse perpetrators report having been victimized by abuse, but most victims do not go on to commit sexual abuse against others.

Here are the consequences of linking women’s medical records to their Aadhaar

April 24, 2018 1:19:48 pm

#GenderAnd: Aadhaar has been pitted to solve another problem, that of gender-biased sex selection…but the suggestion is flawed

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Gender mainstreaming in politics: Where has gender-based reservation got us?

April 13, 2018 2:28:25 pm

#GenderAnd: The journey of many women elected representatives shows the environment has not necessarily become enabling and favourable for women to gain experience and emerge as policy makers.

Lean on Me: The radio show which has been a friend to many Indian women

April 2, 2018 10:48:02 am

#GenderAnd: Sakhi Saheli, a synonym for girlfriend, is a popular show on All India Radio’s Vividh Bharti, running for nearly 15 years now.

Sarojini Naidu: I am only a woman, only a poet

March 28, 2018 9:41:14 am

#GenderAnd: The Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu was a poet, a politician and an activist. She was the first Indian woman to be President of the Indian National Congress.

Sucheta Kripalani: India’s first woman chief minister, chartered her own independent course

November 25, 2020 6:18:43 pm

#GenderAnd: Sucheta Kripalani and her husband Acharya Kripalani continued to have different political loyalties, exemplifying democracy of a different kind.

National Family Health Survey underscores need for serious discussion on marital rape

March 15, 2018 9:12:07 am

#GenderAnd: 31 per cent of married women have experienced physical, sexual or emotional violence at the hands of their spouse, with physical abuse being the most common

Indian science and gender bias, nothing scientific here

March 14, 2018 3:05:35 pm

#GenderAnd: As in most sectors in our unequal society, science too has an asymmetric representation of gender. There are very few women in faculty positions. Transgenders and intersex are unheard of.

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Binodini’s Women: The three strong characters of My Son, My Precious.

March 9, 2018 3:31:15 pm

#GenderAnd: The Princess of Arts and the key renaissance figure of Manipuri modernism. Her exposure to literature broadened at Tagore’s Santiniketan where she became the celebrated muse to sculptor and painter Ramkinker Baij, and found her reaching beyond strictures of ideology to a universalist, humanist art.

Chup raho, kam bolo, dheere bolo

March 13, 2018 1:46:55 pm

#GenderAnd: “The key habits that may dominate women’s everyday lives, despite their education, success, financial status and family background. These behaviours may seem harmless, but each one has enormous impact, and it means only one thing – that Indian women are trained to habitually delete themselves”