Khattar Celebrates Haryana’s Improved Sex Ratio By Cracking Sexist Joke
Leaders like Khattar and Saini are a symptom of India’s misogynist mindset, which wants brides but not daughters.
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BADLAV: Do Women Want To Be Treated As Goddesses?
Positive reinforcement does seem like a good strategy, something which needs to be explored by researchers, especially in context of Indian society and values. But is deification of women the correct way to proceed?
‘Biking Queens’ To Set Out On A Mission From Varanasi To London
Meet India’s bikers on a mission. Reclaiming their spaces, driving their passions and touching new goals. This trio is one badass lot. Dr. Sarika Mehta, Jinal Shah, and Rutal Patel are the three women who call themselves ‘Biking Queens’ and they are prepared to spread the message of ‘Nari Gaurav‘ (women pride) across the world. […]
Girl Who Escaped Child Marriage Scores 90% In II PUC Exam
Karnataka girl, Rekha V surprised everyone after scoring 90.3% in the recently announced II PUC examination results. II PUC course is a pre-university course which is an intermediate course (known as 10+2) of two years’ duration, conducted by state education institutions or boards in India. Rekha was forced by her mother to get married two […]
Is Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Only A Publicity Gimmick?
Virendra Kumar, Union Minister of State for Women and Child Development, while responding to a question on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme told the Lok Sabha recently that the government had allocated Rs 648 crore for the programme in the last five years, of which Rs 364.66 crore was spent on advertising and Rs 159.18 crore was […]
‘Don’t Kill Unwanted Girl Child, Put Up For Adoption’: Maneka Gandhi
Female Infanticide is a concern that we must look at very deeply. At a national conference for the government’s Beti Bachao Beti Padhao initiative, women and child development minister, Maneka Gandhi talked about a district collector’s effort to save unwanted girl children. Gandhi recollected an incident where the said collector promoted the idea “ladki ko […]
Why will we not talk about the rapes in this country? Because it’s ‘disgusting’
At a press conference today, the brand ambassador for the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao mission, Amitabh Bachchan was asked his views about the heinous rapes that have shaken the country in the past month. But before I go onto what he had to say, let me jog your memory a bit, dear reader. It is […]
Teen Writes To Magistrate, Foils Parents’ Plan To Marry Her Off
The Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign and other initiatives for the girl child may be working, but they are yet to change people’s mindset. Although there has been a decline in child marriages, certain sections of society still do not consider child marriage a serious crime. A 15-year-old girl from Bihar managed to stop her impending […]
Chandigarh: Three-day Photo Exhibition to Celebrate the Girl Child
A three-day photo exhibition was organised in Chandigarh, featuring works of over forty photojournalists from Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Amritsar. The photographs celebrated the girl-child and womanhood. Forty photojournalists mount a three-day exhibition to celebrate the girl child… https://t.co/wLyd6pTjCz — NewsWallet (@newswalletapp) July 9, 2017 Organised by the Photojournalist Welfare Association(PJWA), the exhibition was under the […]
A Look At Women-Oriented Reforms In 3 Years Of Modi Govt
With the Modi government completing three years in power, here’s a look at how the government fared overall in promoting gender diversity, inclusion and empowerment of women.
