In an initiative to promote girls education, two UK and Canada-based NGOs, have adopted four girls of Barundi village, Punjab, for their education, reported TOI. Barundi village is about 31 km from Ludhiana. The NGOs, run by NRIs, decided to fund the girls looking at their excellent performance and poor background All the four girls […]

It’s a fact that when women are provided empowering tools like education and participating in the workforce, society benefits.

Our society doesn’t adequately value women. There is massive gap in the economic empowerment of women in society and one must question absence of women’s participation in the economy. Meet Jayati Ghosh, currently professor of Development Economics at the Jawaharlal University at Delhi. She is one of the few people responsible for the National Knowledge Network, a […]

Primary and secondary education for women has been a questionable area, especially in Asia and most of the developing world. Recently, the Into film festival was held in UK, which is an annual film festival for education for 5-19 year olds. HeforShe campaigner Emma Watson and Nobel laureate Malala Yousufzai got talking about a documentary […]