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Gaslighting Doctors Make It Harder For Women With Long COVID

For middle-aged women, long COVID is a difficult enough condition to endure as it is without having to put up…

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How Covid-19 Lockdowns Impacted Menstrual Health In India

Limited access to period products during India’s COVID lockdowns highlighted how far public health initiatives have to go when it…

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We Need To Talk About Obstetric Violence

Women being threatened with beatings for screaming during labour. Women forced to deliver babies on the floor despite the availability…

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Beleaguered Parties And Strategic Voters

All the talk as Pakistan headed to the polls on February 8 was about the two main political parties, their…

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How A Cancer Diagnosis Can Bring Financial Ruin In India

Meenati* arrived at the clinic with a painful lump in her left breast, which she had first noticed three months…

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Politics Isn’t For Women? Busting Some Myths

Over the years, India has seen several women leaders in its politics. However, in a nation with a population of…

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Why Can’t We Treat Our Women Better?

A case involving fratricide has again shone the spotlight on deep-seated misogyny in India. The incident involves a woman CEO…

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Men & Women Who Hold Sexist Views Are Less Responsive As Parents

Do your attitudes about women and men influence how you parent your children? Perhaps you think women are warmer and…

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Women Bear Brunt Of Asia’s Climate Failures

As the world digests the confused legacy of the COP28 summit in the United Arab Emirates, the realities of those…

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Pros And Cons Of A Women-Friendly Rideshare App

Ride-sharing platforms in Asia are thriving but their impact on women’s safety and mobility remains largely unexplored. This is concerning,…

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Elevating Water Resilience: Story Of Odisha’s Penthakata Community

Situated along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, in Puri, Odisha, the Penthakata settlement relies on the sea for…

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From Sexual Liberation To Heels, How Women Are Changing North Korea

Kang* was 20 years old when she left her official job as a potato researcher in North Korea. She wanted…

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Mahua’s Witch-Hunt: Misogyny At Its Worst

The case involving Trinamool Congress' Mahua Moitra and her expulsion from the Lok Sabha has given me pause to ponder…

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How COVID Enabled New Forms Of Economic Abuse Of Women

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations (UN) identified what it called a “shadow pandemic” of domestic…

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Here’s How We Can Tackle Gender Violence

Gender-based violence remains widespread. The good news is, it’s preventable — and major advances in law, tech, and other sectors…

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Justice A Distant Dream For Survivors Of Acid Attacks

Rima, 38, (name changed) has suffered repeated episodes of domestic violence after marriage, owing to her inability to pay dowry.…

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Domestic Violence: Can Tech Help Tackle It?

The murder of a young woman named Lilie James in the toilet block of a Sydney school by her former…

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Women In Sundarbans Show How Mangroves Reduce Impact Of Cyclones

The state of West Bengal often hits national headlines, mainly for controversial reasons. However, there is one area in which…

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A New Way To Fight Sexual Violence In Conflict Zones

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…

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Women’s Rights In Balance As India Weighs Criminalising Marital Rape

The Supreme Court of India is poised to deliver a landmark judgement that may make it a crime for a…

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Why Women In India Are Less Likely Than Men To Find Jobs

Women in urban India want to work but are not in the labour force in significant numbers, found a 2019…

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How COVID Enabled New Forms Of Economic Abuse Of Women

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations (UN) identified what it called a “shadow pandemic” of domestic…

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Women Biologists Take Centre Stage In Saving Forests And Wildlife

Breaking new ground along with gender barriers, India has seen many pioneering women biologists who stepped out to explore and…

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The Disinformation Deluge Targeting Women And Gender-Diverse People

Gendered disinformation weaponises fake news and manipulated photos against the vulnerable. What can be done to stop it? The world…

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There Was No ‘Woman’s Work’ For Paleo People

Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At least this is the standard narrative written by and about men to the…

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