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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicSexism

Topic: sexism

By meeting only women journalists, Rahul turned clock back on equality & not in a good way

With his exclusive interaction with women journalists, Rahul Gandhi just turned back the clock on gender equality.

Why do short-haired women get charged more than men for haircuts

Pay parity’ is so last century as a feminist slogan. What we should ask for is ‘price parity’. It’s as if the entire retail universe is rigged against us.

Children become sexist as early as six years old

When asked to draw a scientist, studies found that younger children are more likely to draw female scientists. The tendency to stereotype increase with age.

Student elections in Punjab after 34 years. But little will change if Chandigarh is a role model

Panjab University hasn't offered much to the student politics; if the heartland follows the same route, things may go worse.

India’s unending obsession with ‘husband-wife’ jokes, both ‘veg’ and ‘non-veg’

Marriage jokes constitute the majority of WhatsApp forwards wherein women are invariably shown as the cause of trouble in men’s life.

Sit girl, in the corner: Across the world, the many proverbs that keep sexism alive

Around the world, through the ages, there have been norms for how women should conduct themselves.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.