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Thousands of women protest during a nationwide women's strike in Lausanne, Switzerland. Women across Switzerland walked off the job, burned bras and blocked traffic Friday in a day...

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Young women being counselled on motherhood

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Flight Lieutenant Parul Bhardwaj (Captain), Flying Officer Aman Nidhi (Co-pilot) in the centre, Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal (Flight Engineer), extreme left, and Squadron Leader ...

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Bollywood actress Taapsee Pannu, sharpshooters Prakashi Tomar and Chandro Tomar during an interactive programme 'We the Women' for women empowerment, organised at National Law In...

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Women activists of different organisations raise slogans during the 'Women March For Change' event, in Amritsar.

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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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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

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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.

PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan
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

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90% Favour Free Rides For Women In Metros And Buses, Says AAP

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had on June 3 announced his government's decision to provide for free travel for women in Delhi's public transport buses and Metro trains.

Jun 18, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
'Metro Man' Sreedharan Writes To PM Modi Against Delhi Govt's Free Travel Scheme For Women

In a letter to the PM Modi, Sreedharan, popularly known as 'Metro Man,' said if the Delhi government is 'so keen' to help women commuters, it can pay the cost of their travel directly to them rather than making travel free on metro trains.

Jun 14, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Free Bus, Metro Rides For Women Soon In Delhi, Announces Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi Cheif Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that women will get free rides in the city's DTC bus services as well as the Delhi Metro

Jun 03, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Haryana: 3 Cops Suspended, 2 Sacked After Video Of Policemen Beating Woman Goes Viral

The matter was also brought to the notice of Haryana police on Monday by the State Women Commission which took a strong view of the incident.

May 28, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
People Need To Know That Modern Polo Started In Northeast: Roopa Barua On Her Award-Winning Documentary

Set in Manipur, 'Daughters of the Polo God' by Roopa Barua, is a documentary about saving an endangered breed of pony and empowering women in the sport of polo at the same time.

May 27, 2019

| Abdul Gani
Tata To Start Late Night Emergency Services Tailored For Female Drivers Called ‘Woman Assist’

Will cater to women facing car troubles between 8PM and 5AM in 14 cities

May 13, 2019

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Bikini Babe To A Public Kiss: 5 Dirty Instances When Women Politicians Were Shamed

The plight of the Indian women politicians is to be felt to be believed. They may be worshipped as Laxmi, Saraswati and Durga inside the house but the treatment meted out to them while on election campaigns is just atrocious.

Apr 29, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
NASA Wants A Woman To Stay On International Space Station For 11 Months, Here's Why

Astronaut Christina Koch's mission will provide researchers the opportunity to observe effects of long-duration spaceflight on a woman, NASA said.

Apr 28, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Challenges And The Way Forward For Women in Politics

The biggest embodiment of the widespread resistance against greater female participation in political processes is the consistent opposition to women’s reservation bills which have been introduced and failed to pass in 1996, and again in 1998, 1999 and 2002.

Apr 26, 2019

| Vani Tripathi
Fleeing 'Oppression From Family', Saudi Sisters Plead For Help On Social Media

Using a newly created Twitter account called 'GeorgiaSisters', the two sisters from Saudi Arabia identified themselves as Maha al-Subaie, 28, and Wafa al-Subaie, 25.

Apr 17, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau

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Gender Studies: Why Future Tense For Women In India

Fund cuts, scarcity of guides and death of literature are making gender studies increasingly difficult in India. This at a time when international organisations and MNCs have gender sensitivity in their programmes

Jun 04, 2019

| Lachmi Deb Roy
'Numbers Lie In Indian Politics: Contribution Of Women Grossly Underplayed'

At a time when politicians like Jacinda Arden of New Zealand are transforming world opinion, Indian politicians remain in the grip of men who refuse to share the limelight with women. But there are minor exceptions in Odisha and Bengal, says Krishna Menon

Apr 25, 2019

| Krishna Menon
Women's Reservation Bill: Twenty-Three Years And Counting... Will It See The Light Of Day?

The delay in implementing the Women's Reservation Bill even after 23 years it was mooted is a clear indication that men hate to share spotlight with the fairer sex in Indian politics. Will that ever change?

Apr 25, 2019

| Preetha Nair
Gender Inequality In Indian Politics Is A Shame, Says Shiv Sena Newbie Priyanka Chaturvedi

Women continue to remain in the shadows of men in Indian politics. Priyanka Chaturvedi reveals the lopsided world and why reservation for women is only for the books.

Apr 25, 2019

| Priyanka Chaturvedi
Women In Politics: Sumalatha Ambareesh Is No Stranger To Politics

As an independent candidate from Mandya, Sumalatha Ambareesh has been successful in finding support from the Kannada film industry to carry forward the legacy of her late actor-turned-politician husband M.H Ambareesh

Apr 25, 2019

| Ajay Sukumaran
A Hard Truth In Indian Politics: Men Feel Threatened By Women Who Are Intelligent, Single And Independent, Says Nagma

In Indian politics, women are like guinea-pigs. Actress-turned-politician Nagma Morarji reveals the gameplan of big parties and very clearly, men don't want to lose in a complex game of money and power.

Apr 25, 2019

| Nagma Morarji
Women In Politics: From UK MPs To Sushma Swaraj, Sexist Trolls Are A Way Of Life

It's not just in India, women in politics across the world face nightmares on the ground and are easily victimsed on social media. From communal digs to morphed images, women leaders like Sushma Swaraj and NT Rama Rao's wife have not been spared

Apr 25, 2019

| Siddhartha Mishra
Elections In India: From Ridicule To Sexual Innuendos, Why It's A Nightmare For Women Candidates

Indian politics remain a male dominated domain. So much so that women candidates aspiring to be an MP or MLA have to endure sexist comments and even fend off perverted men during their campaign trail

Apr 25, 2019

| Bhavna Vij-Aurora G.C. Shekhar
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