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TopicWomen education

Topic: women education

What clothes we wear is unimportant. What is important is how we are thinking: Indira Gandhi

On 23 November 1974, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi delivered a speech at the Indraprastha College for Women in New Dehli, highlighting what educated women can and should do.

How to Tali-ban a country back to stone(ing) age & move over nationalism, here comes little bro

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Afghan women’s foremost right is to education, says Saudi Arabia after Taliban bans college 

Muslim-majority nations, along with the West, have slammed the Talibans’ latest restriction on women; the highest education a girl can now get in Afghanistan is till grade 6.

Kabul blast a setback for Afghan women seeking education despite growing Taliban restrictions

A suicide bomber detonated explosives Friday, during a practice exam in the girls' section of private tutoring centre in Kabul. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the blast.

India’s growth is not in dispute. But women not advancing in STEM holds us back

The male-skewed STEM job market makes Indian parents educate their daughters in scientific fields not to increase their labour market value, but their marriage market value.

Taliban to segregate men, women when university classes resume on 9 October

Taliban’s deputy spokesman Karimi, said women will be only allowed to attend university when a 'pure Islamic environment' is created, without stating any criteria or timeline for it.

Afghanistan’s only girls boarding school moves to Rwanda to escape the Taliban

Shifting of SOLA (School of Leadership Afghanistan) comes days after co-founder Shabana Basij-Rasikh posts video of her purportedly burning students' records to protect their identity.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain — a pioneer of women’s education who strove for a feminist utopia

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's short story 'Sultana's Dream' was one of the earliest feminist utopian fiction that spoke about patriarchy and shunning of women from the sciences.

Covid decisions across the world being made by men, not women, study finds

The study has also found that men are four times more likely to be the protagonist of a Covid-related news story and those portrayed as 'empowered' tend to be men.

On Camera

Aamir Khan and Salman Khan are still dodging and deflecting the age question, 20 yrs later

On the first episode of Two Much With Kajol and Twinkle, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan were confronted with another hypocrisy: age gaps. And they didn't come out looking good.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

With MiG-21’s exit, India’s squadron strength hits 6-decade low. What are IAF’s plans for the Tejas

While the IAF remains committed to the Tejas programme and has placed orders for 180 Tejas Mk1A, the force is eagerly waiting for the Tejas Mk 2 version.

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.