women

I am a thirty-five-year-old modern woman. My friends call me a feminist and I accept that I am one. I believe women of this era are intelligent…

March 11, 2019 · 4 min read

Rati Agnihotri has filed for divorce filing for a case of domestic violence against her husband of almost two decades.

September 2, 2015 · 3 min read

In 2014, Suchitra Sharma called out shoe-sale ads that portrayed women as deal-obsessed dimwits. A prescient media critique, from the TI archives.

October 14, 2014 · 1 min read

In 2014, Antalya opened a women-only beach. Supporters called it freedom and safety; critics called it a step backward. TI's 2014 report on the controversy.

September 2, 2014 · 1 min read

In October 2013, Saudi women defied the driving ban by filming themselves behind the wheel — joined by a viral Bob Marley parody. The ban fell in 2018.

October 29, 2013 · 1 min read

Every year thousands of married Hindu women fast from dawn until moonrise to celebrate Karva Chauth, a festival to celebrate for the long-life and…

October 15, 2013 · 3 min read

From clothing sizes to wages to workplace respect, plus-size women face bias everywhere — and exercise isn't the whole answer.

August 12, 2013 · 1 min read

Pew's 2013 'Breadwinner Moms' report: 40% of US households with kids have moms as primary or sole earners, up from 11% in 1960.

May 29, 2013 · 2 min read

In 2012 India recorded 24,923 rapes with a 24% conviction rate — and behind every number was a woman. A 2013 editorial on the stories that forced a nation

May 28, 2013 · 1 min read

Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In argued women hold themselves back at work. The backlash said the system holds them back. Inside one of 2013's fiercest debates.

March 13, 2013 · 2 min read

The National Commission for Women and some parliamentarians on Monday came out in support of Kashmir's first all-girls rock band 'Pragaash' whose singing was…

February 4, 2013 · 2 min read

Women were told to fear the weight room. The men had it right all along: lift heavy, eat enough, rest — and stop doing endless cardio.

August 27, 2012 · 2 min read

Ten fitness goals worth chasing — from a 5K to a two-minute plank to a sunrise yoga practice. A bucket list for women who want to feel strong.

August 20, 2012 · 2 min read

Anne-Marie Slaughter's July 2012 Atlantic essay — written after leaving her State Department post for her family — argued that 'having it all' was never

July 20, 2012 · 1 min read

The beauty industry sells empowerment in a tube — but the daily ritual of makeup, products, and perfection has a price. An essay on the pressure.

April 23, 2012 · 1 min read

Fashion keeps sorting women's bodies into fruit and vegetable shapes — pear, apple, carrot, eggplant. The taxonomy says more about marketing than about bodies.

March 29, 2012 · 1 min read

Whiskey was never actually a men's drink — it just had a men's marketing budget. On women claiming their pour, neat or on the rocks.

October 12, 2011 · 1 min read

A survey claimed women spend five hours a day gossiping. The methodology collapses under scrutiny — and the stereotype it feeds has a long history.

August 16, 2011 · 1 min read

Maitreyee Rajaput, Arti Jain and Charmy Sheth swept the top three CA final ranks in 2011 — and girls outscored boys on pass percentage too.

July 19, 2011 · 2 min read

Why do women stay in toxic relationships? Trauma bonding, real structural constraints, and double-bind social pressure explain it better than the question

March 23, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, Kay Hymowitz's 'Manning Up' argued the rise of women had turned men into boys. The extended-adolescence debate -- the facts and the framing.

February 25, 2011 · 2 min read

Women in South Asia were 37% less likely than men to own a phone. In 2010, a Clinton- and Blair-backed push called mWomen set out to close that gap.

January 6, 2011 · 2 min read

For young Muslim women in the West, choosing the hijab is often an assertion of agency and ambition — not the retreat from modernity the debate assumes.

November 17, 2010 · 1 min read

Girls match boys in early math performance, then the STEM gap opens. The evidence says it is a social and structural phenomenon — not biology.

November 16, 2010 · 1 min read

Hair is at once trivial and profound — a primary medium through which women negotiate identity, conformity, and rebellion. Why it matters.

November 9, 2010 · 1 min read