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China: Suicidal rates are higher in case of women

hina is the only nation where suicidal rates are higher in case of women than men and that the ratio is soaring in rural regions postulated the state media. Yang Fude, vice-president of Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital quoted, China is the only country where suicides among women outnumber men. According to an official study [...]

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Venus unhappy on earth: The 21st century suffrage

After the Suffrage movement in 1890s, one thought that emancipation of women will be incessant and there shall be no looking back. Today, in 2008, again a woman feels the need to revolt, to fight for her right and to get rid of the step-mother treatment that this world never fails to give her. She [...]

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Let Your Daughter Choose Who She Wants to Be

When buying clothing for an unborn baby, it is almost impossible to find clothes that aren’t in pink or blue. It seems that almost from the point of conception that society attempts to assign pre-determined roles to our children, and from this point on it only gets worse. In infancy, boys are given toys that [...]

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Crime against women doesn’t alarm Kashmir government

She has to keep her mouth shut on molestation, harassment, and eve teasing incidents; she hardly goes legal way against the crimes like domestic violence, kidnapping etc. committed by men in Muslim society. This needs very urgent attention of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. The valley, which is still trying hard to [...]

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Prostitution, only way to earn their livelihood

She is not abiding by the stereotypical norms of Indian society which ought to be followed by all girls especially that of the rural region. As a girl enters the stage of adulthood, she steps across the threshold of her new phase of married life however life is not same for the girls of Bedia [...]

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Sporting Excellence: Faith No Bar

The benefits of sports and games, even of a non-rigorous nature, are universally acknowledged. One would imagine that such a well-known fact would find many takers, but unfortunately that is not always the case. Gender, cultural norms and religion have a very strong hold on the perception of sporting events and their suitability. Studies have [...]

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UN report confirms the bias present against women worldwide

Women have always been given the status of being the secondary gender or referred to as being the weaker or the fairer sex, subjecting them to exploitations in almost all aspects of life. The woman who has been the progenitor of life on earth since its very inception has always been looked down upon by [...]

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After 100 years women the world over still struggling for equality

On 8 March 1908 female garments workers in USA took to the Manhattan streets protesting against gender discrimination demanding equal pay, better working conditions, childcare centers and right to vote. Since then, this day has been looked upon as one of the first mass protests by women right groups and after a hundred years, we [...]

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Feminist Cities- Cities with a large amount of feminists

Women, time and again, have proved that they are no less than men. Women, in every walk of life, have been rubbing shoulders with their male counterparts these days. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Sheila Bair (Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.), Indra Nooyi (Chief executive, PepsiCo), Gina Trapani (Author, Google Wave), Ruth Zorates (Founder, twitteranalyzer.com), [...]

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Women and War: Gendered Politics

In the so called developed world, the position of women in public sphere remains static and insipid with any issue relating to them considered innocuous. Time and again women are looked upon as mandated individuals ordained only with duties pertaining to the defined territories of their houses and are predominantly seen as stupefied objects of [...]

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