Asia The importance of female workers for India’s future economic growth January 28, 2020 0 Image Credit: Female health workers in India by CDC Global/Flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Ankita Shree. The Indian economy is going through a difficult phase, considering its much-vaunted…
Asia The Women’s Reservation Bill in India: Participation and representation May 24, 2019 0 Written by Ankita Shree. Image credit: World Bank Photo Collection/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The Indian parliamentary elections of 2019 mark one of the biggest democratic elections…
Asia Patriarchy in practice: The predicament of women in Pakistani society May 21, 2019 0 Written by Omaima Lone Image credit: Ithmus/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Some fourteen centuries ago, the religion of Islam pronounced men and women as being equals.…
Asia Excerpts from a voter’s notebook: Manifesto destiny May 7, 2019 0 Written by Swarna Rajagopalan In the first week of April 2019, the Congress Party released a manifesto it had spent months preparing in consultation with…
Education Project Hope: A charity from Nottingham improving the lives of single mothers in Sri Lanka November 6, 2018 0 Kilian Bachmair As part of the Rosie May Foundation’s international internship programme, four students from the University of Nottingham spent three weeks at the foundation’s…
Japan Sexual harassment and the problem of gender inequality in Japan September 6, 2018 0 By Emma Dalton When the news broke in early August that Tokyo Medical University had been altering the entrance examination scores of female candidates, even…
Gender Gender equality, climate change and the myth of participation: The case of the Maldives September 5, 2018 0 By Phu Doma Lama Gender issues have increased in importance among climate change policies in recent years. The celebratory tone at the COP 23 in…
China Subversion of Stereotypes: Chinese art and Echo Morgan July 4, 2018 1 Written by Luise Guest. Echo Morgan is the English name of Xie Rong, a Chengdu-born, London-based, multi-disciplinary artist whose work is underpinned by a dark family story.…
India How Pakistani and Indian women confront marital economic abuse June 29, 2018 0 Written by Punita Chowbey. Although disputes over finances are known to be common in South Asian families, relatively little is known about the prevalence and severity of…
China Women’s football in China: Bend it like Sun Wen? May 21, 2018 0 Written by Kayleigh Renberg-Fawcett. At the time of writing, general attitudes toward Chinese football inside China itself are far from positive. China, a country of…
