Sexism

US army hit over death of recruit who was allegedly sexually harassed

A 20-year-old Army private, Ana Basaldua Ruiz, was found dead in her quarters at Fort Hood, the huge Texas military base where she served, on March 13, the army press office at the base said in a statement

Happy Women’s Day: Is the celebration merely symbolic?

International Women’s Day, 8 March, provides a focus point, a rallying call and important recognition. How these get translated into direct action is a difficult task, but one that a symbolic day cannot be expected to surmount

Congress leader’s sexist ‘latka-jhakta’ remark on Smriti Irani snowballs into controversy: Who said what

In a sexist shocker, Uttar Pradesh Congress leader Ajay Rai said that Smriti Irani, who represents Amethi in Lok Sabha, comes to the constituency only to show ‘latkas’ and ‘jhatkas’. The BJP leader hit back at the party and Rahul Gandhi, calling them ‘mysoginistic goons’

Bollywood has been normalising sexism long before Layer'r ad fiasco

Bollywood’s protests over the perfume ad are more hypocritical than the ad itself which let’s face it the film industry has been normalising sexual harassment for ages.

At Tokyo Olympics, a crystallisation of sexism and policing of women's appearance that persists across all levels of sport

Who dictates the physical appearance of female athletes? This debate, that seems frozen in the early 1900s when women first started competing in the Olympic Games, raged on at Tokyo 2020.

US pop star Pink offers to pay bikini fine for Norway beach handball team

Pink, a three-time Grammy Award winner, said on Twitter she would cover the fine, berating the organisation and encouraging the players to carry on covering up.

England vs New Zealand: Mark Wood backs Ollie Robinson to 'do the business' amid racism row

Robinson's encouraging display on Day 1 at Lord's was overshadowed by the re-emergence of racist and sexist tweets first posted when the now 27-year-old Sussex quick was a teenager.

Framing Britney Spears: The New York Times' documentary underscores the star's essential unknowability

"Lolita" or "trainwreck", "victim" or "survivor" — easy labels can't capture the truth of Britney Spears.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Anger grows over organising committee chief's sexist comments

While ranking high on a range of international indicators, Japan persistently trails on promoting gender equality - ranking 121 out of 153 nations surveyed in the World Economic Forum's 2020 global gender gap report.

Allegedly Problematic: The feminist analysis of Ramarajan's Paattukku Naan Adimai no one asked for

One of my favourite kinds of Tamil cinema is the heavy-handed, predictable and alarmingly dramatic kind with aggressive songs, precise, staccato dishum-dishum sounds and wounds that look like smears of ketchup. Paattukku Naan Adimai was one of those movies.