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India struggles with limited effectiveness of its gender responsive budgeting: UN report

The report which analysed how countries in the region are placed compared to the Sustainability Development Goals adopted in Beijing 30 years back noted the adoption of gender-responsive budgeting by Asia-Pacific countries.
20 November 2024, 10:45 IST
India struggles with limited effectiveness of its gender responsive budgeting: UN report
India struggles with limited effectiveness of its gender responsive budgeting: UN report

India struggles with limited effectiveness of its gender responsive budgeting: UN report

20 November 2024, 10:45 IST

Memorialising queer desire

Each poem in Tsolakis’ collection resonates with the present while recalling the past, attempts to exhume the stories of people who bore the cost of being themselves and presents Greek myth-histories, and champions queer ethnography in a way that makes it accessible for people of other cultures to find common expressions in it, transcending all sorts of borders.
17 November 2024, 03:05 IST
Memorialising queer desire
Memorialising queer desire

Memorialising queer desire

17 November 2024, 03:05 IST

Why pay attention to widows?

Human rights are meant for all human beings and widows are as much entitled to a life of their own as widowers and all other humans, writes Mineke Schipper
09 November 2024, 22:33 IST
Why pay attention to widows?
Why pay attention to widows?

Why pay attention to widows?

09 November 2024, 22:33 IST

Who’s more gossipy? Women or men?

Why did women get tagged as the more gossipy sex while men pass off this universal human trait as, ahem, networking, wonders Indu Balachandran
09 November 2024, 22:29 IST
Who’s more gossipy? Women or men?
Who’s more gossipy? Women or men?

Who’s more gossipy? Women or men?

09 November 2024, 22:29 IST

Why gender should be an election issue — not just in US, but in India too

Survey data from Dan Cassino, Professor of Politics, Fairleigh Dickson University (FDU) and Director of FDU Poll, shows that this election may see a record gap in voting preferences between men and women, especially between traditionally masculine men and others.
31 October 2024, 21:26 IST
Why gender should be an election issue — not just in US, but in India too
Why gender should be an election issue — not just in US, but in India too

Why gender should be an election issue — not just in US, but in India too

31 October 2024, 21:26 IST

Of queerness and Dhamma

Why are queer individuals often made to feel as though they are straying from the path of Dhamma simply because of their identity? Is the cis-heterosexual norm the only Dharmic norm, asks Kanav Narayan Sahgal
27 October 2024, 02:54 IST
Of queerness and Dhamma
Of queerness and Dhamma

Of queerness and Dhamma

27 October 2024, 02:54 IST

Outdated gender roles and bad science — Sperm is not the hero, egg is not femme fatale

Aristotle once wrote about females being ‘mutilated males’; suggesting that women are just an inferior version of men. Western medical culture has imbibed this description, and kept it alive.
19 October 2024, 06:15 IST
Outdated gender roles and bad science — Sperm is not the hero, egg is not femme fatale
Outdated gender roles and bad science — Sperm is not the hero, egg is not femme fatale

Outdated gender roles and bad science — Sperm is not the hero, egg is not femme fatale

19 October 2024, 06:15 IST

Branded for life

When I share my reasons, all the pieces fall into place like a jigsaw puzzle. I don’t offer details, just that I survived a gang rape. The questions cease.
12 October 2024, 23:58 IST
Branded for life
Branded for life

Branded for life

12 October 2024, 23:58 IST

Why women outlive men

Ahead of International Day of Older Persons, Indu Balachandran has some profoundly scientific to some perfectly silly reasons for what contributes to longer lives.
28 September 2024, 23:01 IST
Why women outlive men
Why women outlive men

Why women outlive men

28 September 2024, 23:01 IST

A stony challenge

As India’s first woman scientist to Antarctica, Sudipta Sengupta writes about her rocky, yet fruitful experiences and learnings as a geologist in a male-dominated ‘rough terrain’.
28 September 2024, 22:57 IST
A stony challenge
A stony challenge

A stony challenge

28 September 2024, 22:57 IST