Observing that the rule used to dismiss former Lieutenant Selina John only applied to women nursing officers, apex court said acceptance of such patriarchal rule undermines human dignity.
UN report says that biased social norms and broader human-development crisis heightened by Covid, when many women lost their income, have stalled progress on inequality.
When engineering is critical to achieving sustainable development goals, and when our ultimate goal is equality, engineering must become as diverse as possible.
More than introducing token awards to mark Women’s Day, sensitising accomplished men in science against everyday sexism may help bridge the gender gap.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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