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Workers of Kudumbashree, a poverty eradication and women empowerment programme of Kerala, during the launch of an initiative at Koyilandi in Kozhikode.

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Falling Share

Women workers at a garment factory in Vapi, Gujarat

Photograph by Soumik Kar
Ivanka Trump speaks during a roundtable on the Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, in Washi...

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A Cambodian woman stirs palm sugar in a pot during a palm harvesting season at Chheu Buorn village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Some villagers of Chheu Buorn earn up t...

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Exile & Worship

Nepal enacted a law in 2017 criminalising the custom of banishing menstruating women to a chhaupadi hut

Photograph by Getty Images
Women take part in Bhagvad Gita Abhiyan procession in Hubballi, Karnataka.

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Lovlina Borgohain, 21

Category: Welterweight, 69kg, Assam

Photograph by Jitender Gupta
Manisha Moun, 20

Category: Bantamweight, 54kg, Haryana

Photograph by Jitender Gupta
Sonia Chahal, 21

Category: Featherweight, 57kg, Haryana

Photograph by Jitender Gupta
Simranjit Kaur Baatth, 23

Category: Light welterweight, 64kg, Punjab

Photograph by Jitender Gupta
Mamota Devi Yumnum

Mamota won gold at the 52nd Asian championships on October 7 in Pune.
Miracle woman-athelete Man Kaur (102) during the concluding function of Mahila Sashaktikaran Daud, in New Delhi.

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Lord Ayyappa devotees during a protest called by various Hindu organisations against the lifting of ban by Supreme Court that allowed entry of women of menstruating age to the Saba...

PTI Photo/Santosh Hirlekar
Lord Ayyappa devotees during a protest called by various Hindu organisations against the lifting of ban by Supreme Court that allowed entry of women of menstruating age to the Saba...

PTI Photo/Santosh Hirlekar
Women achievers pose for a group photograph during the 3rd WomeNation Summit 2018, in Mumbai.

PTI Photo/Shirish Shete
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj exchanges greetings with four Indian mothers before they started a journey to the United Kingdom covering 22 countries and 20,000 km over 60...

PTI Photo/ Kamal Kishore
A Fine Cut

Women pay more than men for similar services

Photograph by Nilotpal Baruah
Faculty members of Punjabi University swing during Teej Festival celebrations, in Patiala.

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Ammal Farahat, who has signed up to be a driver for Careem, a regional ride-hailing service that is a competitor to Uber, drives her car in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. After lifting a lo...

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Hessah al-Ajaji drivers her car down the capital's busy Tahlia Street after midnight for the first time in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi women are in the driver's seat for the first ...

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Ahead Of Elections, Sabarimala Presents Itself As a Political Fruit Ripe For Plucking

Sabarimala became a politically combustible issue after the CPI(M)-led LDF government vowed, some say too hastily, to implement the SC order.

Mar 14, 2019

| Preetha Nair
'The Verdict': Turnout Of Women Voters Will Be More Than Men In 2019 Polls

India’s pioneering psephologists slice through the clutter with some revelations: women voter turnout will be higher than men in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Mar 08, 2019

| Prannoy Roy Dorab R. Sopariwala
In India, Women Are A Distinct And Independent Vote Bank: Exclusive Extract from 'THE VERDICT' by Prannoy Roy

To emphasise how important the male vote is to the NDA: if no women, only men had voted in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the NDA would have won by an enormous landslide with 376 seats. However, if no men, only women had voted, the NDA would have won 265 seats—which would have been seven seats short of the majority mark.

Mar 07, 2019

| Prannoy Roy Dorab R. Sopariwala
It’s Shocking That 21 Million Women Can’t Vote: Prannoy Roy

Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala speak to Outlook on their book 'The Verdict' and what makes the 2019 polls the biggest and most important.

Mar 07, 2019

| Satish Padmanabhan
21 Million Eligible Women Will Not Vote In 2019: Exclusive Excerpts From 'THE VERDICT' by Prannoy Roy

The disenfranchisement of women voters is hopefully a result of mere inefficiency, not quite in the same league as the ‘dark arts’ of voter suppression around the world. However, it is a deeply worrying phenomenon of our electoral system.

Mar 07, 2019

| Prannoy Roy Dorab R. Sopariwala
Why Female Participation In Workforce Is On The Decline In India?

Lack of work leads the reasons driving down women’s share in the workforce

Feb 20, 2019

| Lola Nayar
Are Menstrual Disorders More Prevalent In Developing Countries?

Menstrual disorders may be more, not less, prevalent in developed countries

Dec 27, 2018

| Sinu Joseph
The Original ‘Sin’

The physical taboo at Sabarimala, the verbal one in court

Dec 27, 2018

| Indira Jaising
Myth, Evolution And Science Love Under The Crimson Moon Clock

Period pollution is a myth. What it does in biology is cleansing, a monthly exorcism of pathogens. And by all means, make love.

Dec 27, 2018

| Ruma Satwik Ambarish Satwik
Editor's Essay: Why Menstruation Is Outlook's Issue Of The Year

We at Outlook have decided to settle for something more substantive from now on to encapsulate the 12 months by settling for an Issue of the Year. For 2018, Menstruation is the Issue of the Year.

Dec 27, 2018

| Ruben Banerjee

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21-Year-Old Woman Alleges Rape Inside CPI(M) Office In Kerala, Probe On

Attacking the CPI(M), senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala told reporters that it was unfortunate that party offices of the CPI(M) have become "rape centres. I have regret in saying this. But that is the fact".

Mar 21, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Gender Pay Gap High In India, Women Earn 19 Per Cent Less Than Men: Report

Even in sectors like healthcare, caring services, and social work, men earn 21 per cent more than women.

Mar 07, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Priyanka Gandhi Wears Jeans And Top In Delhi, But Saree-Sindoor In UP: BJP MP

This is not the first time that BJP leaders have courted controversy with their remarks on Priyanka Gandhi.

Feb 10, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Tanushree Dutta, Torchbearer Of India's #MeToo, Invited To Harvard University

"Invited to speak at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. India Conference 2019 on February 16, a flagship event organised by the graduate students of Harvard Business school and Harvard Kennedy School," wrote Tanushree on Instagram

Feb 10, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
There's A Need To Promote Nutrition-Sensitive Food System

Shaping agriculture and food systems to make them more nutrition-sensitive can lead to better diets and improved nutritional outcomes, writes Lalita Bhattacharjee, senior nutritionist, FAO.

Feb 08, 2019

| Lalita Bhattacharjee
Despite Everything That I've Done, Fortunate My Name Hasn't Come Out In #MeToo: Shatrughan Sinha

The #MeToo movement hit Bollywood last year and saw several women coming out with their horror stories of sexual harassment and rape by actors and filmmakers from the industry.

Feb 06, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Meet Suman Kumari, Pakistan's First Woman Hindu Judge

Suman, who passed her LLB. examination from Hyderabad and did her masters in law from Karachi’s Szabist University will serve in her native district of Qambar-Shahdadkot.

Jan 29, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Watch: Siddaramaiah Loses Temper, Misbehaves With Woman In Mysuru

Visibly agitated by the woman's questioning, the former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah quickly snatched the microphone from her and along with it pulled a section of her 'dupatta' and forced her to sit down.

Jan 28, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Kerala Govt Is Duty-Bound To Implement Sabarimala Verdict, Uphold Constitution: Governor Sathasivam

Various events that had taken place in connection with the Sabarimala issue underlined the urgent need to carry forward the renaissance movement, the Governor said while detailing steps taken by the state government to ensure gender equality.

Jan 25, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Scripting History: All-Women Assam Rifles Contingent March Past Rajpath On Republic Day

The decision to open Assam Rifles to women was taken in 2012. After a lot of research and preparation, the force was opened to women in 2015. A year later, in 2016, the first batch took its commencement oath and 127 women recruits became Assam Rifles’ first batch of Riflewomen.

Jan 23, 2019

| Soni Sangwan