women empowerment

Vaishnavi writes about the importance of easy accessibility to emergency contraceptive pills and the changes that occurred after she started a petition against the ban on their sales in Tamil Nadu.

Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT), a Delhi-based organisation is trying to encourage girls and women to participate more in the fields of science and technology. Here's how.

In an open letter published on Facebook, singer Sona Mohapatra has bravely taken a stand against the organisers of IIT Bombay's annual festival Mood-Indigo, who she claims showcase "only men headliners on their stage".

A growing number of Bollywood leading ladies are unrepentant about being who they are and are claiming what they want.

From a barber to a painter: these Indian women who have defied societal norms and stormed male bastions.

Here's a look at how Jayalalithaa played mother to women folk in Tamil Nadu by providing them with socio-economic authority.

Despite a strong push for greater representation, women are still a woeful minority in the top echelons of today’s corporate world. Anju Jain discusses strategies that might be able to remedy this situation in her book 'Step Up'.

Anju Yadav from Mirzapur and women from her family are leading the fight against the patriarchal practice of keeping married women behind the veil.

Back in 2002, Sobita Tamuli was an 18-year-old married girl with little formal education, living in a small village in Assam. Today, she is a successful entrepreneur heading a thriving establishment that has under its wings two brands flourishing in the local market.

Shalini Munuswamy, who was rescued from bonded labour and given a chance to continue her education five years ago, has successfully graduated from high school and is all dreamy-eyed about going to college. The road ahead, however, isn’t that easy for her.