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Sunday, August 17, 2025
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Topic: Women

Why older Indian women are poorer compared to older men

The gap between female and male poverty rates widens dramatically after the age of 45 in India.

Are conversations between husbands and wives keeping rural Indian women from working?

An MIT study tests if lack of decision-making power of wives is due to lack of information, or lack of communication with husbands.

BBC story on ISRO top engineer focuses more on her cooking than her scientific work

Contrasting women’s professional achievements with their roles in the kitchen reinforces the caretaker stereotype.

Wonder how the perfect Indian bra is made? This might answer all your questions

Hooks and eyes, straps, underwires, cups, band and all the other 12 to 15 parts of the bra need to be stitched together perfectly to get the right fit.

Dear PM Modi, just 3 female judges in the Supreme Court is no cause for celebration

Women judges are routinely passed over for promotions, making it impossible for them to move into bigger roles.

Are Dalit women less or more mobile than upper caste women in India? Jatis hold the answer

Earlier studies have shown that higher the caste status, greater the subordination of women. But among Dalit sub-castes or jatis, the story is far more varied.

Munshi Premchand’s ‘Godaan’ featured Hindi fiction’s first live-in relationship

Premchand's women characters are definitely stronger than his male ones and fight battles to liberate their sexuality. If there is one day in the calendar...

Women in Netflix’s Sacred Games act as motivators for men, their own motivation is a mystery

Sacred Games allows so much space for lush, immersive storytelling, but all we get are, well, dead women, and the mystery of their motivation.

Rashmi Saksena shows the women who are taking to militancy in India

‘She Goes to War’ tells stories about women militants in India, but not through the prism of militancy

All-women teams bag top 3 positions in Smart India Hackathon at IIT

The teams devised innovative prototypes for the agriculture sector such as smart drip irrigation, mechanical harvesters and soil testers.

On Camera

SC’s stray dog order lit a match in Delhi. Are they a menace or companions?

The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?