Local bodies in Kerala are set to undergo performance ranking in the state based on a set of criteria which would include the performance of Jagratha Samithis at different levels, says Sri. MB Rajesh, Minister for Local Self Government....
Photo Credit: Millennial Action Project
Sabin Iqbal and K.M. Seethi
A few years back, an analysis that appeared in the Harvard Business Review showed that women were grossly underrepresented in the media across the world and that they only appeared "in...
There has been a proliferation of literature on women, including women’s history across the world. Yet, women remain mostly invisible or misrepresented in mainstream history. They are either not present at all, or they are portrayed as innately ‘inferior’...
Vipasana Karkee and Marie-Claire Sodergren
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals set out a shared vision to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030. Will the pandemic reverse progress in advancing decent work for all...
By Kieran Walsh
The data is abundantly clear on one point: the COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionately negative impact on women. Because more women work in the tourism, retail, and informal sectors, which have been hardest hit by the...
An interview with Fatma Alloo (Interview by Heba M. Khalil)
Fatma Alloo (of the Tanzania Media Women's Association) on how women used the media and cultural spaces to organize and challenge gender norms.
Fatma Alloo’s activism grew in the decades following...
