Shamed and sidelined for too long, plus-size women in Pakistan are now speaking up

Fashion bloggers and celebrities in Pakistan are embracing their curves and putting haters to shame.

Annam Lodhi

· Jan 21, 2018 · 11:30 am

Uproar over Malala’s jeans: For Pakistan, women’s autonomy is a threat to national integrity

Pakistanis use women as easy targets to vent cultural anxiety, be it Mahira Khan smoking or Malala wearing Western clothes.

Zoya Rehman

· Oct 26, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Maryam Mirzakhani’s success showed us the challenges women in maths still face

It took 80 years for a woman to be awarded the highest prize in mathematics, the Fields Medal.

Vicky Neale, The Conversation

· Jul 19, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win Fields Medal in mathematics, dies of cancer

The Iranian had breast cancer.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 15, 2017 · 07:53 pm

The first woman to run the Boston Marathon does it again 50 years later

Kathrine Switzer, 70, completed the run just a few minutes slower than she did in 1967.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 18, 2017 · 09:37 am

The 19th-century women doctors of India whose pioneering work has been forgotten by history

Charlotte Ellaby and her peers changed the rules, when women were only considered fit to be nurses or midwives.

Anu Kumar

· Apr 10, 2017 · 11:30 am

Why even a great writer like Adichie should not be an expert on everything

Why do we expect a writer to have a position on everything under the sun?

Hani Yousuf

· Apr 01, 2017 · 05:30 pm

The legacy of Savitri Bai: why thousands of women are marching near the RSS headquarters in Nagpur

Organisers were inspired by the many student movements in India in the past year.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Mar 10, 2017 · 06:30 am

Jayalalithaa championed the cause of women in Tamil Nadu, but did she empower them?

Experts say that while her welfare schemes targeted women, they did nothing for their empowerment.

Vinita Govindarajan

· Dec 07, 2016 · 05:30 pm

Iraqi woman who survived Islamic State sex slavery named United Nations Goodwill Ambassador

Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who was kidnapped from her home in 2014, was made the organisation’s ambassador for survivors of human trafficking.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 17, 2016 · 12:26 pm

Photos: Indian acid attack survivor Reshma Qureshi walks the ramp at New York Fashion Week

The 19-year-old, who modeled for designer Archana Kochhar, has been campaigning against the open sale of the corrosive substance in the country.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 10, 2016 · 01:13 pm

Eminent writer Mahasweta Devi dies at 90 in Kolkata

The Sahitya Akademi awardee's condition had deteriorated after a blood infection and kidney failure.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 28, 2016 · 03:35 pm