Women & Child Development ministry
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How Ashrafunnisa Begum, who set up the first girl’s school in Lahore, educated herself in secret
Muhammadi Begum
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How women were driven out of the medical profession during the Middle Ages
Isabella Gagliardi, The Conversation
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Mumbai’s poor bus system may be holding back its female workforce
Dimple Behal, IndiaSpend.com
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What are the ways in which women’s participation in the Indian workforce can be increased?
Uma Ganesh Shilpa Phadke
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This book for children remembers Jhalkari Bai, leader of the women’s wing of Rani Laxmibai’s army
Swati Sengupta
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Watch: India U-19 women’s cricket team celebrates T20 World Cup win by dancing to ‘Kala Chashma’
Scroll Staff
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‘I turned my impatience into something useful’: Ruth Ozeki, winner of 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Sayari Debnath
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‘Be like a man’: Journalist Anuradha Sharma on how women journalists in India are expected to work
Scroll Staff
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What can we learn about Bengali women’s complex relationship with food from bratas?
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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Watch: Two female police officers fight off armed thieves, foil bank robbery in Bihar
Scroll Staff
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Watch: India’s Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu fights back tears as she takes her final walk as Miss Universe
Scroll Staff
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In Dudhwa National Park, Tharu women are engaged in a long-standing fight for forest rights
Tarun Kanti Bose
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Watch: Eighty-three-year-old woman wins gold and bronze medals at Pune carrom competition
Scroll Staff
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'Being a woman is a crime’: Female student in Afghanistan makes powerful statement in men’s clothes
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Meet Captain Shiva Chauhan, the Indian army’s first woman officer to be deployed at Siachen
Scroll Staff
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A historian studies the women of the Middle Ages to know why they were kept out of popular history
Janina Ramirez
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On live TV: Afghan professor tears up certificate to protest against banning women from universities
Scroll Staff
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A new book examines how successful the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act has been
Supurna Banerjee Nandini Ghosh Madhurima Mukhopadhyay Ruchira Goswami
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‘Through a Looking Glass’: These short stories paint true pictures of the fates of women in India
Shyamala A Narayan
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In her own words: Sania Mirza, aspirant fighter pilot, after clearing her NDA entrance exam
Scroll Staff