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By पूनम पांडे

महिला अधिकारों की जब बात उठती है तो महिलाएं क्या मांगती हैं? जाहिर है बराबरी का अधिकार। लेकिन अगर बराबरी की मांग करते-करते कोई खुद शोषणकारी की तरह बर्ताव करने लगे तो…. कम से कम कुछ मामलों में तो यही हो रहा है। इसमें कोई दो राय नहीं है [...]

The Myth of Women's Oppression

Sisterhood is powerless

How feminism has made men’s lives safer — and women’s more dangerous.

By Jennifer Foote Sweeney and Alisa Smith

Feminism, real or imagined, has long been praised and blamed for a whole pile of societal developments, crises and trends. But it has emerged recently in unlikely quarters: as a major factor [...]

Women's Bill: Empowering Gharanas, Not Women

The results of recent Lok Sabha elections have driven home the very disturbing fact that politics in India is fast becoming a family business. If this trend continues, as indeed it will unless major changes are made, India will soon find itself being ruled “democratically” by just over a thousand families who will [...]

Women less happy after 40 years of feminism

Despite wealth, health and opportunity, men still more content says study by US National Bureau of Economic Research

On the long and winding road to having it all, Helen Parker is making good progress. At 27 she’s forging a career as an executive with a transport company in London, she has a [...]

My Uncle Jules

by Guy de Maupassant

A white-haired old man begged us for alms. My companion, Joseph Davranche, gave him five francs. Noticing my surprised look, he said:

“That poor unfortunate reminds me of a story which I shall tell you, the memory of which continually pursues me. Here it is:

“My [...]

Something for the Loose-n-Forward Women to understand

Come ride the third wave of feminism

Why are feminist movements categorized as waves? Certainly there have always been individual female innovators and small groups that have accomplished great progressive acts. But the wave signifies a momentous involvement by the feminist population. And just as a wave collects sand and particles, the feminist wave picks up and includes multiple issues important [...]

The facade called Women Empowerment

Women Empowerment, Women Equality, etc. seem to be the buzzwords these days with more and more articles coming out about increasing awareness amongst women about their rights. Since so many decades we have been hearing of these campaigns and they are still running. Feminists still seem to cry about women rights, women empowerment and women [...]

And you still cry about female infanticide?

Congratulations Feminists of India,

All the so-called "women empowerment" laws of India have now created so much scare among the would-be parents that they don’t want sons anymore. Getting a daughter on the other hand will be beneficial for them, as they can as well earn money from the free ATM machines (created by law) called [...]

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