It is this pressure of likeability that forces women to sew their lips, hates their bodies and refuses to demand their rights. Because women want to seek patriarchal validation, they compete with women and pull each other down.

Single women often end up prisoners in their own house despite being independent in various other ways.

Why can’t women carry their family name forward when men get to do it? Changing surname after marriage should not be a necessity but a choice of a woman.

The first woman Hindu priest in West Bengal, Nandini Bhowmik is giving patriarchal society a progressive outlook. In her decade-long stint as priest, the Kolkata-based woman has solemnized weddings in a unique way. She has performed rituals for as many as 40 marriages. A Sanskrit professor at Jadavpur University, she recently solemnised her daughter’s marriage. She is […]

German national Ulrike Reinhard decided to teach a young boy who misbehaved with her a lesson in respecting women