For middle-aged women, long COVID is a difficult enough condition to endure as it is without having to put up…
Limited access to period products during India’s COVID lockdowns highlighted how far public health initiatives have to go when it…
Women being threatened with beatings for screaming during labour. Women forced to deliver babies on the floor despite the availability…
All the talk as Pakistan headed to the polls on February 8 was about the two main political parties, their…
Meenati* arrived at the clinic with a painful lump in her left breast, which she had first noticed three months…
Over the years, India has seen several women leaders in its politics. However, in a nation with a population of…
A case involving fratricide has again shone the spotlight on deep-seated misogyny in India. The incident involves a woman CEO…
Do your attitudes about women and men influence how you parent your children? Perhaps you think women are warmer and…
As the world digests the confused legacy of the COP28 summit in the United Arab Emirates, the realities of those…
Ride-sharing platforms in Asia are thriving but their impact on women’s safety and mobility remains largely unexplored. This is concerning,…
Situated along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, in Puri, Odisha, the Penthakata settlement relies on the sea for…
Kang* was 20 years old when she left her official job as a potato researcher in North Korea. She wanted…
The case involving Trinamool Congress' Mahua Moitra and her expulsion from the Lok Sabha has given me pause to ponder…
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations (UN) identified what it called a “shadow pandemic” of domestic…
Gender-based violence remains widespread. The good news is, it’s preventable — and major advances in law, tech, and other sectors…
Rima, 38, (name changed) has suffered repeated episodes of domestic violence after marriage, owing to her inability to pay dowry.…
The murder of a young woman named Lilie James in the toilet block of a Sydney school by her former…
The state of West Bengal often hits national headlines, mainly for controversial reasons. However, there is one area in which…
The UN has tried tackling conflict-related sexual violence for more than two decades, but its “add-women-and-stir” approach doesn’t go far…
The Supreme Court of India is poised to deliver a landmark judgement that may make it a crime for a…
Women in urban India want to work but are not in the labour force in significant numbers, found a 2019…
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations (UN) identified what it called a “shadow pandemic” of domestic…
Breaking new ground along with gender barriers, India has seen many pioneering women biologists who stepped out to explore and…
Gendered disinformation weaponises fake news and manipulated photos against the vulnerable. What can be done to stop it? The world…
Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At least this is the standard narrative written by and about men to the…
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