Gender Equality
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With funding cuts in key sectors, budget fails to foster women’s empowerment
Allocations for job creation, food and nutrition and improving women’s access to education have been reduced.
Divya Pradeep & Julia Thomas
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Achieving global gender equality at current rate could take 286 years, says UN report
Covid-19 pandemic, violence against women and setback to reproductive rights are some of the deterrents to gender equality, says the report.
Scroll Staff
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg had reshaped American law even before she went on the US Supreme Court
While nominated Ginsburg, Bill Clinton compared her legal work on behalf of women to the epochal work of Thurgood Marshall on behalf of African-Americans.
Jonathan Entin, The Conversation
Trending
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‘Santosh’ review: A thoughtful study of power and powerlessness
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International Booker Prize 2024: Quick reviews of the six shortlisted novels
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The test of time: A jail mulaqat with Umar Khalid
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An environmental lawyer studies in this new book how Dalits are excluded from India’s forest laws
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Nuh is BJP’s Hindutva lab in Haryana – but Muslims are angry at Congress' poor campaign
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Kerala to have women drivers in government, public sector offices
Presently, Kerala has women drivers for private buses, taxis, autorickshaws and ambulances.
Scroll Staff
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US: Berkeley City Council votes to remove gendered pronouns from its municipal code
Firemen and firewomen would be called firefighters, brothers and sisters will be siblings, and manholes would become maintenance holes.
Scroll Staff
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Sabarimala violence: In battle of republic vs orthodoxy, Supreme Court’s authority is being debased
The failure of the state government to protect women at the shrine is a sheer abdication of its constitutional responsibility.
Sruthisagar Yamunan
Video
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Watch: Classical dancers perform Bharatnatyam and Odissi duet to ‘Sakal Ban’ from ‘Heeramandi’
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Watch: Two musicians simultaneously play the violin with one hand and the piano with another
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Caught on camera: Streaking meteorite turns night sky blue across Portugal and Spain
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Watch: Ed Sheeran sings Punjabi remix of ‘Shape of You’, accompanied by Bhangra dancers
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Eco India: Even as technology lends a hand, India's farmers grapple with an uncertain future
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The men’s liberation movement: What today’s #MeToo sceptics can learn from their 1970s brothers
A few decades ago, small groups of progressive men began to look beyond the reductive gender roles that they had been conditioned into.
Emily Priscott, The Conversation
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India votes against WTO declaration seeking to improve gender equality in trade
Nearly three-quarters of the 164-member agency backed the declaration on women’s empowerment in trade.
Scroll Staff
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India falls 21 places in global gender equality report, ranks 108 in 144-nation list
In 2016, India’s rank was 87.
Scroll Staff
The Reel
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‘Santosh’ review: A thoughtful study of power and powerlessness
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Is Anirban Bhattacharya Bengali cinema’s white knight?
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Start the week with a film: Why Farah Khan’s ‘Main Hoon Na’ endures
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‘Chandu Champion’ trailer: Kartik Aaryan in biopic of Paralympic gold medalist Murlikant Petkar
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‘It Ends With Us’ trailer: Blake Lively stars in drama about an abusive relationship
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Norway doubles women’s footballers’ salary and trims men’s pay to bring wages on par
Players from both teams will now earn 6 million kronor (Rs 4.8 crore) a year.
AFP
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England’s Lewes FC become first professional club to award equal pay for men and women
The initiative was made a part of the club’s campaign to raise awareness about gender equality in the sport.
Scroll Staff
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Colombian rebels have a new plan for the country, and it’s called ‘insurgent feminism’
Demilitarised female guerrillas in Colombia are hoping to spark a new women's movement based in the FARC's revolutionary ideals.
Camille Boutron, The Conversation
The Field
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Hockey, FIH Pro League: Indian men’s team get ready to fine-tune Paris squad in Europe leg
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Athletics: India's 4x400 mixed relay team set national record, clinch gold in Asian Relay C’ships
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Football, Premier League: Manchester City win fourth straight title
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Hockey, FIH Pro League: Harmanpreet Singh – the calm leader and ruthless drag-flicker for team India
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IPL 2024: Rajasthan pipped to second spot by Hyderabad after match against Kolkata gets washed out