Actor Shahid Kapoor says the strongest people in his life have been women, especially his mother Neelima Azeem who has been a single parent. He also calls his wife Mira and daughter Misha his “whole world” and says he couldn’t have been happier in his life than now. Shahid spoke[Read More…]
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‘Women have to wait 217 years for pay gap to close: World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced that it would take 217 years for disparities in the pay and employment opportunities of men and women to end, the media reported. The Forum late Wednesday said the figure was significantly longer than the 170 years its researchers calculated a year ago,[Read More…]
Google fires software engineer for writing ‘sexist’ memo on diversity
Google has fired James Damore, the software engineer on Monday for writing an internal memo that questioned the company’s policies on diversity. His memo claimed that there are fewer women engineers because of their “biological differences”. Damore confirmed that he was fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes,” Reuters reported. In an[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh: 14 men molests two women, posts video; 1 held
A video of a group of 14 men harassing and molesting two women in Uttar Pradesh’s Tanda district has surfaced. Post the incident, one of the accused, Shahnawaz Qadri from Kuwan Kheda village of Tanda, was arrested by the police. Search teams are hunting for the others. Besides, the officials[Read More…]
Indecent representation of women in movies are the main reason of sexual violence: Maneka Gandhi
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has blamed movies for the increase of violence against women and urged the film industry to portray women in a better light. “We have very important reason why men believe they can get away or they indulge in violence against women[Read More…]
It may take 150 years for women to match men’s pay standard
Although the corporate world is happy have women at work and women CEOs, the glaring reality is that the women don’t stand a chance of equaling men when it comes to pay till the year 2168 – 151 years from now. Significantly, India ranks second when it comes to gender[Read More…]
When girls dress like men, they think like them and it reduces their urge to reproduce: College Principal
A woman principal in a college in Mumbai has been quoted as saying that polycystic ovarian syndrome, or PCOS, a common disease in women caused by hormonal imbalance, happens when they dress like men as it causes gender reversals in their minds and lessens their urge to reproduce. “I have[Read More…]
When Iranian men wore hijab for their wives!
In a display of solitary with their wives, men in Iran are wearing hijabs across the country. Answering a campaign, ‘My Stealthy Freedom’ by Masih Alinejad, an Iranian activist and journalist living in New York the men are protesting against the ‘moral policing’ imposed in Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.[Read More…]