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Gender
Book Review
Violence, deception, and redemption: Portrait of a marriage in Heart Tantrums
Aisha Sarwari’s memoir is an uneven book which is still worth reading because of its unflinching honesty.
Ranjana Sengupta
Campaigns
How a women’s movement in the 1970s shaped India’s battle against inflation, gender inequality, and caste bias
Meet latnis—women whose rolling pins fought corruption and hunger. Their story offers insights into women’s relationship with money and the economy.
Saumya Kalia
Essay
The invisibilising of queer Dalits in Yashica Dutt’s 2019 memoir
Dutt erases queer Dalit voices while claiming the term “coming out” for herself, overlooking its origins and complex marginalised experiences.
Sumit Baudh
Women Empowerment
Women voters of India: A force to be reckoned with
Political parties vie for women’s votes with promises of welfare schemes and doles, but true empowerment remains elusive.
T.K. Rajalakshmi
Legislation
Women’s reservation: A law on paper, but a reality far away
Implementation of reservation of seats for women in Parliament and State Assemblies will have to wait for the Census and a delimitation exercise.
Saba Naqvi
Interview
Vandana Shiva: ‘We must reclaim land as a commons with shared use rights for both men and women’
The noted environmentalist offers candid takes on India’s agrarian crisis, sustainable agriculture, and gender equality in farming.
Siddarth Muralidharan
Space Research
Chandrayaan-3 success puts India’s ‘rocket women’ in the spotlight
Scientists hope the success of ISRO’s moon mission will inspire more young women to study science.
Deutsche Welle
More stories from Gender
Women in Kashmir revive spinning wheel craft with modern charkhas
How a small shawl maker in Kashmir is helping women artisans revive the traditional spinning wheel craft.
Irshad Hussain
131 years more to close global gender gap: World Economic Forum report
Iceland tops the Global Gender Gap Report 2023 once again, while India makes a partial recovery.
Frontline News Desk
Empowerment or exploitation? How UCC will impact women’s rights in India
Though gender-sensitive reforms in personal laws are needed, women’s organisations doubt the government’s real intentions behind the UCC.
T.K. Rajalakshmi
‘Against their nature’: When Brazil banned women from football
The country may be synonymous with “the beautiful game”, but it banned women from the sport for nearly four decades until 1979.
AFP
How India’s land ports fail women
Study reveals stark gender disparities and infrastructure gaps undermining women’s participation in regional trade at Indian land ports.
Frontline News Desk
Pride Month: Highlighting the queer community and its struggles for equality
Pride Month is celebrated during the month of June every year worldwide.
TEAM FRONTLINE
How underprivileged women in a Delhi slum are breaking the glass ceiling
Women at Tajpur Pahari discover the power of having information at their fingertips and find out how to use technology to empower themselves.
Ismat Ara
Coloured with hope
Moments from the initiation ceremony of young transwomen after gender affirmation surgery.
Pattabi Raman
Coloured with hope
Milestone moments from the initiation ceremony of 13 young transwomen after gender affirmation surgery.
Pattabi Raman
Why women get fewer jobs and earn lower wages than men in India
Regressive social norms and inadequate investment keep them unemployed and underemployed.
Ashutosh Sharma
On the various shades of masculinity in cinema portrayals
Panel discusses dimensions of masculinity at event celebrating gender affinities.
Siddarth Muralidharan
India at 75 | Timeline: Gender
Gender continues to be a deeply contested and unjust space.
Divya Trivedi
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