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With Science’s Gender Ratio Less Askew, More Indian Women Are Getting Recognition

Tania Devaiah 19/02/2020

Young Indian women in science have a fast-expanding set...

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Renowned Feminist Scholar Gita Sen Wins Dan David Prize

The Wire Staff 13/02/2020

Among many other roles and responsibilities that Sen shoulders,...

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At a Museum for Toilets, Perspectives on Public Sanitation

Aileen Blaney 09/02/2020

"Many kingdoms arose, and they all followed the same...

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Coronavirus: Indian Women’s Hockey Tour of China Cancelled

The Indian women's team was scheduled to travel to...

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Why Artificial-Womb Technology Will Not Herald Women’s Liberation

Sasha Isaac 08/02/2020

While it cannot be denied that artificial wombs might...

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NASA Astronaut Christina Koch Returns to Earth After Record Mission

Reuters 07/02/2020

Koch's 328 days in space eclipsed Peggy Whitson's record...

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Astronomers May Not Like It but Astronomy and Colonialism Have a Shared History

Nithyanand Rao 02/02/2020

Casting Native Hawai'ians' opposition to the Thirty Meter Telescope...