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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

Activists of women’s organisations demonstrating outside Parliament in support of the Women’s Reservation Bill on July 14, 1998.

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.

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

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.

Jammu and Kashmir

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.

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

Uniform Civil Code

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

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Women’s football coach Dilma Mendes poses for a picture at the Arena 2 de Julho Football School in Camacari, Bahia state, Brazil.

‘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.

Women face challenges in regional trade at India’s landports.

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

In 2022, people from diverse backgrounds in Chennai gathered in Egmore, proudly displaying the Pride Flag and marching together for LGBTQIA+ rights.

Pride Month: Highlighting the queer community and its struggles for equality

Pride Month is celebrated during the month of June every year worldwide.

Hemlata’s house in Tajpur Pahari, a slum on the outskirts of Delhi, where she learns how to bridge the digital divide.

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.

Posing proudly in solidarity.

Coloured with hope

Moments from the initiation ceremony of young transwomen after gender affirmation surgery.

Coloured with hope

Milestone moments from the initiation ceremony of 13 young transwomen after gender affirmation surgery.

A handloom weaver at Peruvemba in Palakkad, Kerala. According to experts, most of the economic investment goes to the organised sector, which constitutes only 6 per cent of the workforce.

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

At the panel discussion in Dakshinachitra, Chennai.

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.

Officials inspecting and verifying the age of bridegroom and bride at a mass marriage in Honagera village in Yadgir taluk, Karnataka on April 25, 2016.

The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill has a flawed notion of gender justice

The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, which raises the age of marriage of women from 18 to 21, strikes a blow against women’s empowermen

T.K. Rajalakshmi

A demonstration by women’s organisations calling for an end to gender violence in Hyderabad on November 28.

Domestic violence during COVID lockdown

Victims of domestic violence had a particularly tough time during the pandemic when lockdown restrictions made it difficult to access help.

Sailabala Das questioned Gandhi’s denunciation of machine-made cloth when he himself, she pointed out, was “using motor cars, medicine, and watches etc”.

Unsung sisterhood of Odisha’s women freedom fighters

The Satyagraha movement in Odisha, directly inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, was led, at many places, by women freedom fighters. Their contributions were r

Sachidananda Mohanty

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