Women are capable of taking up leadership roles and have the ability to improve the nation’s economic and social conditions. But is the society a safe space for women leaders?

Among the key bills to be tabled in first session of Lok Sabha also features the Triple Talaq Bill, 2019 – it is the only bill majorly affecting the women of the country.

In the past two weeks, Congress has released a list of close to 372 candidates to contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha election. Of the entire list, a total of 50 candidates are women, which comes around 13% in total, indicating yet another critically low representation of women in elections. This punctures party Chief Rahul […]

Delhi-based business journalist Supriya Shrinate has replaced jailed politician Amarmani Tripathi’s daughter in the Congress party, as the party fielded her for the Mahrajganj Lok Sabha constituency, on Friday. Shrinate has quit her journalistic career with ET Now in order to join the party and will be contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha election. Right after […]

Your vote is a weapon, said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. With the 2019 Lok Sabha election on the way, are women in India truly using this weapon? A recent BBC report highlights there are 21 million women in India apparently ‘missing’ from the voters’ list. The Problem In their upcoming book, The Verdict: Decoding India’s Elections, Prannoy Roy and […]

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi made her debut public speech in Gujarat today, after formally joining the Congress party in January this year. Gandhi launched her speech articulating the fact that the 2019 Lok Sabha election is in no way less than the struggle for Independence. “This struggle is in no way less than the struggle […]