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.
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.
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.
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’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.
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'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.
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.
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
True elegance is a state of mind. Always perfectly dressed and groomed but not remembered in history for her wardrobe.
We are wearing torn clothes and thinking like poor beggars, courtesy of your socialism.