SheThePeople interacts with entrepreneurs from across India all the time through its various events and shows. These interactions have given us insights into these wonderful women’s lives. We get a firsthand account of their journeys and hardships they face. Interaction with over 250 women for this piece, and we have come to conclude that there […]
Books are vital in anyone’s life, as important as windows, they say. It is even more important to read good books, a book which will make us intellectually sound and can help us do away with our ignorance. I remember the time when I picked up ‘Jane Eyre’ during my school days. A friend had […]
Venture capitalist Ellen Pao, who lost the famous 2012 lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has joined Kapor Capital as an investment partner and the chief diversity and inclusion officer for Social Impact, an organisation working towards using technology to improve lives. Kapor Capital, which lists Uber Technologies and Alphabets Inc.’s Dropcam, has been […]
We all have the one habit we can’t get rid of. It can be a small harmless habit like doodling on notebooks, textbooks, benches etc. This is harmless till you start doodling on bank notes, though we enjoyed “Sonam Gupta bewafa hai” thoroughly!. Then there are these some really bad habits which you should get […]
The World Book Fair in Delhi is breaking its all-time record with more than 25% hike in footfall this year. What makes the fair special is its focus on women’s writing. This year’s theme, Manushi, is all about celebrating women authors from around the country, across generations. With books by women authors like Ismat Chugtai, […]
We all face sexism everyday, in one way or the other. Some are very serious and extremely offensive and some have been normalised to the extent that it doesn’t really make us protest. [Feature image: ITV] In a shocking post which has caught attention on social media, a man posted a picture of two women in […]
Simone de Beauvoir, French Feminist writer, would have turned 109 years old today. Born in 1908, Simone de Beauvoir is one of the greatest feminist writers this world has seen. Here are some badass and brutally honest quotes from her book, ‘The Second Sex’.
An application to help women in Punjab in Pakistan aims at curbing violence and promoting women’s safety in the province which has one of the highest crime rates. The application titled PSCA has been launched by the Chief minister’s Special Monitoring unit, Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) and the Punjab Commission on the Status of […]
https://youtu.be/m6_8z4uGGmI She isn’t new to record and here’s another one in her cap. Peggy Whitson became the oldest woman in space, at the age of 56, when she reached the International Space Station in November 2016. She has now set a record for being the oldest woman to do a spacewalk. Whitson’s spacewalk lasted for […]
With each passing day, the definition of beauty undergoes a change. The boundaries are blurring and the beauty industry seems to finally be accepting change with arms wide open. Cosmetics giant Maybelline joins the bandwagon by introducing its first male star as the face of one of its campaigns. Also Read: Comedian Bharti Singh Nails It […]
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