Pinterest’s reputation was maligned recently. Two of its employees on its policy team went public with reports of unfair pay, racism and retaliation.

Captain Rosemary Mariner was the first female military aviator to fly a tactical fighter jet and the first to achieve command of an operational air squadron. She breathed her last on 24 January in Knoxville, Tennessee. She died at the age of 65 after fighting a five-year battle with ovarian cancer. Her husband, Tommy Mariner […]

All IITs must now increase the number of admissions so that they have at least 14 per cent girls in every new batch starting from 2018. As many as 23 campuses, including the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, will have to follow this directive. The HRD plans to increase female representation at the top engineering colleges […]

A new research on female literacy states that countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and even Nepal are leaving India’s educational system behind in terms of quality. This information is part of a research by New York-based International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. The Hindu reported that in India, the proportion of women who completed five […]