Women’s Equality Day: Equal Society Is A Distant Dream, These Incidents Are A Proof
If we want to keep moving towards achieving the goal of an equal society, we need to look hard at these five incidents and ask- why do we continue to fail women?
If we want to keep moving towards achieving the goal of an equal society, we need to look hard at these five incidents and ask- why do we continue to fail women?
Shouldn’t Khanna have known better than to place the onus of harassment on women?
The garb of “feminazi” is used to appropriate the real intent of feminism that demands equality for all genders, that too very reasonably.
A society that prefers a male child has already condemned its women to an unequal world.
So here’s the deal. If a man thinks he should support a woman, he probably never will. If a woman thinks she needs the support of a man, her expectations may always be belied. And as all good rules must come with exceptions, there are caveats to this one as well but we’ll get to […]
ESPN The Magazine is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its body issue. And, what would be an ideal way than portraying 10 unique yet inspiring cover images, including one that features a LGBTQ couple pose together, first for the magazine’s history. 📸 #BODY10 cover athletes… @S10Bird & @mPinoe! 🙌 #WatchMeWork Photos courtesy ESPN The Magazine // cover […]
In a major victory for transgender people, decks have been cleared for them to join the police force in Chhattisgarh. For the first time, the Chhattisgarh government has decided to recruit transgender people in its police force, an ANI report says. This is yet another progressive move in the country to promote gender equality. Soon after the announcement […]
In yet another progressive move, transgender people can now file their tax returns online if they have Aadhaar cards. All they have to do is submit their Aadhaar numbers while filing IT returns, according to a letter issued by the principal commissioner of Income Tax (Puducherry) Jahanzeb Akhtar, Hindustan Times reported. With two days to go before the […]
Phoenix Marketcity in Pune reportedly denied entry to a transgender woman on Thursday evening (March 15). “I had gone for shopping to the mall around 8 pm on Thursday evening. As I proceeded to the ladies section for security check, the lady guard, who was visibly awkward, refused to check my belongings and proceeded to […]
In a first, two transgender women — Jiya Das and Debdatta Biswas – assisted doctors in an operation theatre in Kolkata. The duo scripted history on March 16 as they became Bengal’s first transgender women to be selected as OT technicians to assist doctors during surgeries. Jiya and Debdatta are true examples of pushing the boundaries for equal rights. Both in their 20s, Jiya […]