From the era of Rekha to the era of Ananya Pandey, governments have changed, political dynamics have changed, technology has changed. However, the two things which have remained unfettered are the unrealistic hype around Iphones and the forceful feminization of the colour pink.

The columns which demand that we identify as a ‘He’ or a ‘She’, ‘Mr’ or ‘Missus’ (even ‘Miss’ is given a miss sometimes) feel unnecessary.

Dr Shruti Kapoor on being named in Apolitical’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy for 2019, her advocacy work, how social media has been an enabler and more.

After section 377 was revoked in a landmark judgement by the Supreme Court in 2018, there has been a lot of debate and discussion. I won’t deny that I have been a part of many such discussions. Though I am no subject expert on the matter, it was intriguing to see people’s reactions post the […]

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) released first of its kind of assessment of climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya this week in Kathmandu. The report has terrifying findings. Even with drastic cuts to global emissions we will lose half of Himalayan glaciers by 2100 with a temperature rise of 2 degrees […]

Gender is generally thought of as a stable trait: we are born male or female and we stay that way as we grow from small children to adults. It turns out that for young children, initial concepts about gender are quite flexible. In my own research, I’ve found that children don’t begin to notice and adopt […]

The media coverage and political exposes achieved a new low when Hardik Patel’s alleged sex tape made its electoral debut. There is no need to further discuss who this man is, or why is he so essential to the coming Gujarat elections. The authenticity of this tape is still being debated. And though we don’t […]

That women continue to face gender-based pay gap is not news.  They continue to remain under-represented in high-profile, high-paying positions, in fast-growing professions and almost missing when it comes to STEM subjects, almost globally. What is new is a study which shows that Women Respond Better Than Men to Competitive Pressure. Alex Krumer of the University of […]

Tara Kaushal’s project, ‘Why Indian Men Rape’, will explore the gamut of unique ethnological reasons — social, cultural, traditional, legal, economic, geographic, religious, psychological, etc — that cause sexual violence in the subcontinent.

The researchers of Open University (OU) in Milton Keynes recently produced the Women in IT Scorecard-India Spring Edition of the 2017 with the support of India’s leading IT trade association, National Association of Software and Services Companies – NASSCOM. Its objective is to improve the understanding of the make-up of women in the information technology […]