Gender

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How Domestic Violence Affects India’s Child Mortality Rates Too

Seetha Menon 28/10/2015

There were 1.3 million deaths of children under five in...

Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy. Source: YouTube screengrab

Geoff Marcy Sexually Harassed His Students for Decades Because He Had Help

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/10/2015

The universities at which the superstar astronomer worked defended...

Mali Devi with her two-year-old—and second—daughter Khushi at their home in Dolatpura Kotda, 35 km north-east of Jaipur, Rajasthan’s capital. The panchayat is one of 30 where more girls were born than boys over the last year, a historic achievement in a state with India’s fifth-worst child sex-ratio. Credit: Devanik Saha

Rajasthan’s Revolution: In 30 Panchayats, More Girls Born Than Boys

Devanik Saha, IndiaSpend.org 03/10/2015

While administrative and governance matters were handled by gram...

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Tackling the Right of Adivasis to Safe Motherhood

Aarti Dhar 23/08/2015

UNICEF findings suggest that almost two-thirds of all maternal...

Successful Insertion of Mars Orbiter (Mangalyan) into the Mars orbit,

Women in Science and a Tale of Two Hunters

Shaina Maini 12/08/2015

Even when limited to discrimination, sexism in Indian science...

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Court Ruling on Abortion for Rape Survivor is Reminder of Need to Amend the Law

Aarti Dhar 31/07/2015

Amendments to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act have...

At a meeting in Himmatsar panchayat, Nokha Block to spread the sanitation meeting in 2013. Himmatsar became one of the earliest ODF panchayats after this meeting.

Debate: The Sanitation and Ghoonghat Campaign Actually Empowers Women

Arti Dogra 16/07/2015

Construction of toilets in rural Rajasthan has changed the...