Gender Issues

They were ridiculed for their choices by friends and relatives, but for this love-struck couple, the skewed gender constructs of the society were even more ludicrous!

Baduku Community College, which is part of an NGO called Samvada, has been working with youth from marginalised groups, organising various workshops and programmes for them.

Amita Malhotra and Reema Ahmad started a platform to drive candid conversations on issues of gender, media and culture and their influence on children and young adults – which they aptly called ‘Candidly’.

At a time when Americans are arguing whether to allow transgenders to use women’s bathrooms, this Indian university is blazing a trail.

Ravi Verma and Sapna Kedia explain why, while men have more privileges than women, the costs of masculine norms may be steep not only on girls and women, but also on young boys and men.

The latest National Family Health Survey states that 83% of married women between the ages of 15 and 49 who have ever suffered sexual abuse cite their current husband as the perpetrator.

Each year on International Women’s Day there are discussions and seminars held to commemorate women achievers, to find ways to break the glass ceiling and to march forward. Honestly, all that is great but something far more important to me is ensuring that there is equality at home.

Now that the Supreme Court has waived off this atrocious practice, there are few questions that need conscious concern at this stage.

Rohini Nilekani on why we need to turn to the 200 million young men of India with as much urgency and focus as we spend on the millions of young women in the country.

Simar's poem is for every father, every brother and every son, who wets his pillows so many times and yet he's woken up just fine.