Celebrating womanhood at India Fashion Week
Shekhar's show highlighted the issue of period shaming and showcased the journey of how a girl from her childhood...
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US astronauts make history with all-women spacewalk
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Maternity benefits for teachers, staff in private educational institutions too
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India's first visually challenged woman IAS officer takes over as TVPM sub-collector
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Take a breast break, women
Twenty five breast cancer survivors strutted the ramp for designer Anupamaa Dayal's 'pink show' at the...
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Saudi women can now join armed forces
The move is the latest in a series of measures aimed at increasing the rights of women in the kingdom
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4.5 mn new women voters in Pakistan, mostly from conservative regions
Awareness campaign were launched in tribal and conservative areas by Election Commission of Pakistan.
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Keralite woman takes part in year-long global peace march
The Padyatra aims to spread the United Nations' motto for a world where none is discriminated against.
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Kollam woman sets history in UAE with licence for bus driving
The Al-Ahli Driving Center, where Suja had trained, announced on their Facebook page that she was the first female to...
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53% top Indian companies have Male to Female ratio 10:1 or worse: Study
It also revealed that of the total prescribed amount of Rs 23,247.90 crore to be spent by the mandated companies on...
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Women village heads from India tell UN how gender quotas changed society
Two women sarpanchs have brought to the UN the story of India changing the rural power structure by empowering women.
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Twinkle launches Tweak, a digital platform for women
Tweak's video content will first be available to the Instagram community for 48hours before it gets shared on other...
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YouTube's new initiative to support women creators in India
Back in 2015, there were no women creators to have crossed the one million subscriber mark, but today there are over...
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Women's colleges in MP to have police posts
The decision, taken by the Higher Education Department, is being communicated to the Superintendents of Police in all...
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'Women more active mobile gamers than men in India'
Women attributed their taking to mobile gaming to multiple factors, including their peers and friends, to their...
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Women devoted to spirituality, without family and income, are happiest: RSS think tank
More than 43,255 women above 18 years of age were interviewed for the survey, of whom only 6,000 women were into...
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Anushka Sharma in Fortune India's list of Most Powerful Women
The actress, who ventured into Bollywood in 2008 with the film 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi', is the youngest woman on the...
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'Women in India are excited about initiating conversations'
The 'women make the first move' feature safeguards users from unwanted creepy messages or spammers, and matches...
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Army begins recruitment rallies for women soldiers
The Army is conducting a selection test for the first batch of 100 women soldiers to be taken into the Corps of...
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India's women filmmakers make a mark in global fest circuit
Alankrita Shrivastava, Shonali Bose, Gitanjali Rao, Zoya Akhtar and Tanuja Chandra are adding the new-age relevance...
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Delhi govt drafts policy to build breastfeeding rooms
The government is exploring the possibility of incorporating it in the future building plans and amendments to...
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Anupriya Lakra first tribal woman pilot from Odisha's Malkangiri
Anupriya Lakra from the tribal-dominated district is all set to join a private airline as a co-pilot.
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Afghan women determined to vote in presidential polls
Many women in Afghanistan are determined to vote in the upcoming presidential polls to defend their hard-won rights...
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Breastfeeding pods in Kerala railway stations
Breastfeeding pods are designed to help women comfortably breastfeed infants in public places such as shopping malls,...
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Prachotida: Fest of women writers in Kerala capital on Aug 31, Sept 1
The fest is being organised by Bharat Bhavan, Aksharasthree (a collective of women writers), and Women Writers of...
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Kerala's Gender Park announces new projects
The Gender Museum will focus on the history of Kerala's stellar women, their struggles, their victories, and on their...
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India's first woman DGP passes away in Mumbai
The second woman IPS in the country after Kiran Bedi, Bhattacharya was a 1973 batch officer and created a record when...
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Delhi Assembly allocates grants to fund free metro, bus ride for women
Of the Rs 140 crore, Rs 90 crore has been kept for DTC buses and Rs 50 crore for cluster service buses
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STEM careers in India continue to experience gender gap
With technology accelerating many industries, the skilled workforce gap is growing.
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In a first, women to drive Kerala govt vehicles
Gone are the days when the post of a driver in Kerala state government departments and state-owned public sector...
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Kerala's first woman hunter leaves the woods for heavenly abode
Kuttiyamma, whose real name was Thresya Thomas, has shot dead hundreds of wild animals, including an advancing...
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UP woman gets triple talaq for asking Rs 30 from husband
The woman, who was married three years ago, said that her husband took away their children and pushed her out of the...
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Lack of opportunities pitted women against each other: Priyanka Chopra
The actor rued while there is a perception that women try to pull each other down, the men are assumed to have a...
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Muslim women in Varanasi send 'rakhis' to Modi
Muslim women in Varanasi have sent 'rakhis' to Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is also the MP from this Lok Sabha...
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More women workers would spur Indian economy: Amitabh Kant
Wherever, opportunities were given to women, they have done better than men in India.
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No going back to Taliban repression: Afghan businesswomen
The international aid effort that arrived with foreign forces put girls' education and the empowering of women at its...
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Kashmiri women: Caught between rock and a hard place
If a Kashmiri woman marries a person of any other state of India, Kashmiri citizenship to that female ends!
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New Zealand decriminalises abortion, promises safe facility
The reform bill proposes removing any statutory medical exam for women not more than 20 weeks into their pregnancy.
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Women journalists denied fair share in Indian media: UN report
None of the sampled newspapers, seven Hindi and six English, had a female boss.
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Saudi women no longer need male 'guardian' to travel
The decision, following years of campaigning by activists, comes after high-profile attempts by women to escape their...
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Women in rural Rajasthan find their voice in panchayat meets
Attending panchayat meetings is a big step for women in a feudal society like Rajasthan.
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Nirbhaya incident forced unwell Sheila Dikshit to junk resignation plan
The December 16, 2012 Delhi gang rape 'pierced' Dikshit's heart.
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Countries with strong women's rights grow faster
They analysed databases which held information on health, human rights and economic and social rights for 162...
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Viral tweets by a molested woman on legal process are real eye-opener
A series of tweets by a woman, who was molested on Shatabdi Express, on how to deal with the legal process are going...
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Japanese women eyeing entry to legislatures face severe odds
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made bringing more women into the workforce a policy pillar. But politics remains...
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'Women more vulnerable in car accidents than men'
Researchers have found that women are significantly more likely to suffer injuries than their male counterparts in...
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Saranya set to be the first doctor from her tribal hamlet
Saranya secured the 23rd rank in the tribal category of the medical entrance examination.
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Facebook to double women workforce globally in 5 years
Facebook aims to double the strength of women workers globally in the next five years, along with doubling black and...
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Niqab banned in Tunisian government offices
Reactions to the ban were mixed in the Tunisian capital.
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