For the first time, Saudi Arabia is training women to work as air traffic controllers

The change is part of the conservative kingdom’s move to diversify its economy, which has been weakening because of dropping oil prices.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 19, 2017 · 12:56 pm

Period leave debate is a reminder that workplaces must provide for women’s needs

A Mumbai media firm’s offer of a day’s leave during menstruation has polarised opinion. But it is backed by cold facts and feminist scholarship.

Kavita Krishnan

· Jul 23, 2017 · 08:00 am

If triple talaq is allowed to stay on the law books, let’s allow all Indians the right to use it

A response to a recent article by lawyer Flavia Agnes.

Chayanika Shah

· Jun 06, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Will universal maternity entitlements in India remain a pipe dream?

Existing minimal entitlements to women are now being undermined further through the half-hearted Maternity Benefit Programme.

Dipa Sinha

· May 22, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Triple talaq is a matter of faith, Muslim law board tells Supreme Court

Advocate Kapil Sibal said there is no question of constitutional morality and equated the practice with the Hindu belief that Ram was born in Ayodhya.

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· May 16, 2017 · 01:41 pm

Triple talaq is the worst way to dissolve a marriage, says SC

The court made the observation after advocate Salman Khurshid, who is arguing as an amicus curiae in the case, said triple talaq was optional for women.

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· May 12, 2017 · 05:57 pm

Supreme Court won’t review polygamy, says it will only judge triple talaq’s Constitutional validity

The bench has begun to hear a batch of seven petitions that have challenged the Islamic practices and demanded that they be abolished.

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· May 11, 2017 · 06:37 pm

Punjab government withdraws dress code for female teachers banning ‘indecent’ clothing

The order had asked teachers at government schools not to wear ‘jeans, tops and fashionable dresses’ because they had a ‘bad effect’ on students.

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· May 09, 2017 · 08:50 pm

Do not look at triple talaq through a political lens, says Narendra Modi

Speaking at the Basava Convention, the prime minister called on the reformers of the community to fight for the rights of Muslim women.

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· Apr 29, 2017 · 02:03 pm

A woman’s choice to love has to be respected, says Supreme Court

The apex court said there was no room for chauvinism and that a man should not put his ‘ego on a pedestal and abandon the concept of civility’.

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· Apr 29, 2017 · 01:39 pm

‘It’s absurd’: Watchdog criticises UN for including Saudi Arabia in its women’s rights commission

The West Asian country was elected for the 2018-2022 term of the organisation, which works to promote gender equality.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 24, 2017 · 06:45 pm

Supreme Court rebukes Centre for neglecting destitute women in the country

‘You do not care about the widows of India,’ the apex court told the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

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· Apr 21, 2017 · 10:39 pm