There is a growing need to end the gender imbalance in chess, where men dominate for many reasons and it is the same old story of biases and stereotypes. India got its 76th grandmaster recently as Bengaluru’s Pranav Anand occupied the coveted spot at the World Youth Chess Championship in Romania. While India holds its

Miss Universe pageant will now be open to married women and mothers. In the 1950s, a few years after India was declared independent, a woman from the Madras Presidency made headlines. She took the world by storm by representing India in an international beauty contest. She adorned jasmine flowers and a bindi in the swimsuit

The link between women’s workforce participation and the welfare of the community with a positive impact on health and education has been known for long. And, here is a new study that has reinstated the same by establishing a connect between household-level food security and active women’s workforce participation in the semi-arid rural areas of

Recently, Nike celebrated 50 years of unquestioned influence in the market. It has, as New York Times puts it, ‘won the cultural marathon’. Stories deeply embedded in our memory banks, Nike has always been a step ahead in creating ‘ideas and not just items’. For instance, the performance hijab for female Muslim athletes designed to cover the head

In Indian films, they have been a metaphor—for strength, resilience, and vulnerability. Women have transformed from being docile homemakers, unmarried sisters, or daughters that worked because of the compulsion to make ends meet to women driven by ambition, unafraid to dream big, and with the will to prove their mettle. The strong women in films

Grassroots DEI, a strategy in which the underrepresented move the diversity, equity, and inclusion needle bottom-up, is now a priority among organizations. Alongside corporate DEI and everyday DEI, grassroots DEI has its own role to play—an important one. Grassroots DEI is where individuals take on the reins of DEI and arrive at their own programs.

Women’s participation in the workforce has an array of benefits for the women individually- like economic empowerment and participation in financial decisions. However, the effects can be far-reaching and impactful for a wider group of people. On Population Day, marked on July 11 across the world, we look at the overarching implications of a rise

The US Supreme Court recently struck down the right of an American woman to abortion in a 6: 3 ruling, almost 50 years after the historic Roe v. Wade judgment that guaranteed the right. States can now pass laws to completely ban abortions. Women’s right to abortion assumes many dimensions—medical, social, and economic impacting women

From being the butt of jokes, ridicule, and slurs, to today, when they are protagonists coming out with their stories of the need and struggle for acceptance through a separate category called queer films, nothing has been more transformative than the LGBTQ stories in Indian cinema. One of the earliest depictions of transpersons dates back

Women’s self-help groups (SHGs) are the catalysts in socio-economic growth. With an overarching policy, they can usher in sweeping developmental changes. A decade before the LPG (Liberalization, Privatization, Globalization) reforms in India, gender-agnostic initiatives were prevalent in the rural communities of India. Beyond the glass ceilings and grey-blue tones of the corporate floors, development took