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Sexual harassment claims against Tesla mount after six women file lawsuits against the car maker

By business reporter Nassim KhademPosted Wed 15 Dec 2021 at 12:24pmWednesday 15 Dec 2021 Share this articleabc.net.au/news/women-sexual-harassment-claims-tesla-lawsuit-elon-musk/100703930COPY LINKSHARE WARNING: This story contains language that readers may find offensive. The lawyer for the six women suing Tesla for alleged sexual harassment says more women… Continue Reading →

Rajasthani women stitch their way to high fashion

Rakhee Roytalukdar Dec 15, 2021 Barmer, Rajasthan A young woman’s idea of putting her embroidery skills to good use has resulted in a fashion brand that now employs 22,000 rural artisans and even weathered the pandemic by nimbly setting up online store…. Continue Reading →

AIDWA- Scrap the move to raise the age of marriage for girls

AIDWA Statement on increase in the age of marriage for girls AIDWA strongly disagrees with the recent Union Cabinet decision to raise the age of marriage to 21 from 18 years for girls. This move, ostensibly for ‘women’s empowerment’, will… Continue Reading →

Sparking a national defense of reproductive rights

HELEN GILBERTDECEMBER 2021 “There is a war on women in this country,” declared Martese Chism, R.N., a board member of National Nurses Organizing Committee, in a statement to an abortion rights rally in Naperville, Illinois on October 3. “We are… Continue Reading →

Women Empowerment Panel Flags Poor Utilisation Of Funds Under “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” Scheme

Titled “Empowerment of Women through Education with Special Reference to Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao Scheme”, a report by the panel tabled in Lok Sabha on Thursday said that since the inception of the scheme in 2014-15 till 2019-20, its total budgetary allocation was ₹ 848… Continue Reading →

It’s time to end denial about under-representation of women in Indian media

DECEMBER 8, 2021 “No country in the world has achieved gender equality in media,” said Dr Sarah Macharia, Global Coordinator, Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), at an online event to launch the country report of GMMP India on 3 December… Continue Reading →

Municipal Corporation, Faridabad has to open its regional offices near Haryana Delhi Border and reopen the e-portal.”

The second important round of the CHHITHI ANDOLAN (letter movement) of Team Saathi, Khori Gaon is underway. The second round of letter movement is going on from 28th November. The youth of Team Saathi went from place to place and… Continue Reading →

Punjab Women Collective pays Tribute to women martyrs of farm struggle

Updated At: Nov 21, 2021 09:26 AM (IST) Dr Vandana Shiva delivers a lecture at Panjab Kala Bhawan, Sector 16, in Chandigarh on Saturday. Tribune Photo: Pradeep Tewari Tribune News Service Chandigarh, November 20 With fiery speeches on “Farmers’ Struggle… Continue Reading →

Who Is Varavara Rao And Why His New Book Is In Controversy

Posted On November 15, 2021 Varavara Rao, a Telugu poet, began writing poems when he was around 17 years old. Six decades on and the 81-year-old poet’s life’s work is now in limbo, as Penguin Random House has reportedly put… Continue Reading →

Mumbai’s Kolis fight to (re)claim their home

“We have lost everything. Who has reaped? still, we are displaced in our freedoms” are the opening lines of the poem ईरपाल (erpal), meaning grievance, by local Koli poet Shahir Pundalik Mhatre; documented by the Tandel Fund of Archives, an… Continue Reading →

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