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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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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Can BJP use Ram as a campaign tool during the election?
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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: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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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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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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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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IPL 2024: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock power Lucknow to comfortable win over Chennai
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go