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PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY CHALLENGES
Psychology says women who constantly try to impress everyone at work and home aren’t attention seeking, they may be carrying the weight of perfection pressure to be ‘The Perfect Woman’- Quote of the Day by Amal Clooney: ‘As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share; it is...’ - What the Lebanese-British human rights advocate understood about the struggles of women
- Book of the Day: My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante’s powerful portrait of friendship, ambition, and post-war Italy
- Tripti Dimri Birthday Special: From Laila Majnu to Bulbbul and Qala, 5 films that made her one of Bollywood’s most promising starsTripti Dimri Films: Tripti Dimri, celebrating her birthday, has established herself as a formidable talent in Indian cinema by choosing mea...23 Feb, 2026, 01.16 AM IST
- 2 lakh child marriages prevented during past year but 1 in 5 girls still wed below legal age: MinisterIndia prevented nearly 200,000 child marriages in the past year, yet one in five girls still marries before 18. A new campaign, Bal Vivah M...27 Nov, 2024, 03.38 PM IST
- Don't shut up and empower abuseAndrea Robin Skinner, the daughter of Nobel laureate Alice Munro, revealed that her stepfather sexually assaulted her starting when she was...11 Jul, 2024, 12.22 AM IST
- Pakistan's gender gap index hits rock bottom, second worst globallyWomen's rights activists have issued impassioned pleas for both state and societal commitment to address gender disparities effectively.soc...07 Jul, 2024, 06.40 AM IST
- Bihar man rapes two minor daughters for a decade on advice of an tantrik to have a sonAccording to police reports, the accused father, who initially had two daughters, consulted a local occultist in 2012, seeking advice on ho...15 Sep, 2023, 03.54 PM IST
- SC: Special Marriage Act provision enables invasion of privacyA few petitioners, seeking legalisation of same-sex marriage, have challenged a provision of the Special Marriage Act that requires parties...20 Apr, 2023, 11.56 PM IST
- United Nations Women launches India chapter of Unstereotype AllianceUnstereotype Alliance's members which have committed to challenging stereotyped gender portrayals include India’s largest advertisers Hindu...30 Mar, 2021, 07.17 PM IST
- View: Muslims resist CAA drawing on democracy, AIMPLB bars democracy from customBy challenging the extension of constitutional guarantees of fundamental rights to Muslim law, AIMPLB undermines the ongoing movement to de...04 Feb, 2020, 11.21 PM IST
- Equality, respect and empathy: Top women bosses have the last word on Imran Khan's feminism commentThe cricketer-turned-politician had said western concepts of feminism degrade the role of a mother.27 Jul, 2018, 08.03 AM IST
- Centre to oppose polygamy, Nikaah Halala at Supreme Court hearingNikaah halala makes it mandatory for a divorced Muslim woman to marry another man, consummate the marriage and divorce him should she wish ...30 Jun, 2018, 10.35 AM IST
- How few age-old biases and taboos women faced have changed in IndiaThe country has 63 million “missing women” (due to female foeticide) and 21 million “unwanted girls” (who are not treated well).03 Mar, 2018, 11.38 PM IST
- All patriarchal societies discriminate: All India Muslim Personal Law Board to SCIn a hearing in the Supreme Court, where the constitutional validity of triple talaq was discussed, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board...15 May, 2017, 10.03 PM IST
- Supreme Court confirms death sentence for four convicts in Nirbhaya gang rape caseIn a message that the crime had shocked the collective conscience of the society, and that it is a rarest of rare case, the SC agreed that ...06 May, 2017, 12.10 AM IST
- Is the new-age woman still intimidated by the corporate predator?The law on sexual harassment states that any attention, verbal, physical or even non-verbal, that is “unwelcome", constitutes harassment.20 Mar, 2017, 01.45 PM IST
- India fares poorly in leadership roles for womenThe proportion of senior management roles held by women are the highest in Russia where 40 per cent of top brass are female executives.10 Mar, 2015, 07.46 PM IST
- Fighting crime of rape calls for better policingClosed-circuit TV cameras and real-time processing of their footage are possible and must be deployed.19 Dec, 2012, 05.06 AM IST
- Muslim law board to join Ayodhya appeal in SC?No one on the All India Muslim Personal Law Board ( AIMPLB) will admit it right now but it looks all set to become a litigant in the Ayodhy...10 Oct, 2010, 06.29 AM IST
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