India will launch its lunar mission on July 15. Two women — mission director Ritu Karidhal and Vanitha M are heading this exercise.

There is such a thing as an institutionalised, internal bias. Take a headline from 2016 when Katie Ledecky set a world record in the women’s 800-metre freestyle. The Bryan-College Station Eagle’s report of the event, in which Michael Phelps won the silver, set off a social media tsunami. A woman’s achievement is not significant because […]