WHO’s first chief scientist talks about her journey, interest in TB and her father MS Swaminathan

Soumya Swaminathan and her colleagues were among the first to scale up the use of molecular diagnostics for TB surveillance.

Papiya Bhattacharya

· Oct 26, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Mattel’s Rosa Parks Barbie doll peddles a simplistic version of history

Mattel’s description of Parks’s life after 1955 reflects a widespread habit of presenting the Civil Rights Movement as having a successful mid-1960s endpoint.

David Ballantyne, The Conversation

· Sep 04, 2019 · 11:30 pm

With their bravery at Peterloo massacre, British women changed English politics forever

In 1819, a peaceful rally for political reform in Manchester turned violent after police attacked protestors, especially women, with truncheons and sabres.

Robert Poole, The Conversation

· Aug 20, 2019 · 09:30 pm

The woman who defied market traditions and men’s opposition to create Barbie

In the 60th anniversary year of the world’s most famous doll, a look back at the journey of its creator, Ruth Handler.

Bertrand Venard, The Conversation

· Jun 20, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Queens, poets, academics, mystics: A calendar celebrates 12 inspirational women of Kashmir

The Kashmiri Women’s Design Collective pays tribute to the women who have impacted their lives.

Onaiza Drabu

· Jan 05, 2019 · 01:30 pm

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