International Womens Day 2022

International Women's Day 2022: Songs that celebrate womanhood

Here is a look at the songs that have gone beyond the skin to explore the soul of womanhood.

International Women's Day: Women more prone to vision loss compared to men

By prioritising and improvising the engagement of wider gender empowerment initiative, there is hope for filling the gender gap regarding women’s access to eye care system in India.

International Women’s Day: Lifting the veil of ignorance over Muslim women’s attire

The hijab row discourse offers a binary of either bitterly attacking the hijab or aggressively defending its religious sanction. Both of these betray the crucial element of choice

International Women’s Day 2022: How Ukrainian women soldiers refuse to stay invisible in the military

In 2014, they fought in Donbas. Now, they are fighting a full-fledged war with Russia. But a lot has changed for Ukraine’s women soldiers. This time they will be recognised for their role in combat

How shows like The Fame Game, and films like Tribhanga, Shakuntala Devi are finally embracing the idea of flawed motherhood

A common theme in the West, the idea of flawed motherhood and the mother's guilt had been pushed under the carpet by Hindi cinema for the longest time because it is uncomfortable to address.

International Women's Day: President Kovind awards 29 women with Nari Shakti Puraskars

The Nari Shakti Puraskar is a Women and Child Development Ministry initiative to acknowledge exceptional contribution made by individuals and institutions, and to celebrate women as game-changers and catalysts of positive change in society.

The woman of the ear: Lata Mangeshkar

Singer Lata Mangeshkar was just 13 when she had to fend for her family, Subhash K Jha celebrates the magic of the Nightingale of Bollywood on International Women’s Day.

On International Women’s Day, Google Doodle pays tribute to women acing diverse roles in society

When you open a browser to search for something today (8 March), you'll find a Google Doodle that exhibits an animated slideshow that transports us around the world to give a glimpse into the daily lives of women across cultures.

International Women's Day: The small Maharashtrian village where women own every house

As the world celebrates International Women's Day, the nameplate of every house in Bakapur, a village about 20 km from Aurangabad, displays the name of a woman as the owner or co-owner of the residence

This International Women's Day, let's talk about Hindi cinema's gross depiction of gendered housework

Whatever the COVID-19 lockdown memes may have you believe, the burden of housework still falls primarily on women even if they earn as much or more than the men in the house. These Hindi films are testimony to that.