Kolkata's British Council hosts panel discussion celebrating International Women's Day
Mar 11, 2024, at 05:15 am
The British Council in Kolkata on Friday celebrated International Women's Day by hosting a panel discussion titled 'Women's Voices'.
Siliguri: U.S. Consulate Kolkata, Contact Base host workshop to empower women entrepreneurs
Aug 21, 2023, at 12:07 am
Siliguri: U.S. Consulate Kolkata in collaboration with non-governmental organization Contact Base hosted a multi-stakeholder event for promoting women-led businesses.
Women in India's Northeast are frontrunners in every sphere
Feb 05, 2023, at 10:35 pm
Imphal/Shillong: In India's landlocked Northeast, women are more than half the sky. She leads from the front, she toils to conquer.
FemIndia 2022 focused on women-centric issues at their recent programme
Apr 26, 2022, at 10:37 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Presented by award-winning author Sabarna Roy, ‘FemIndia 2022- A Festival Celebrating Womanhood’, through a recent interactive programme, brought people working in different areas of women’s issues on a common platform.
Aug 26, 2021, at 04:32 pm
The Academy for Women Entrepreneurs programme has helped women entrepreneurs in the Northeast to grow their ventures, raise capital and network with fellow business owners. Steve Fox reports
Ignored and invisible: The burden of mining on women
Jan 22, 2021, at 07:08 pm
While loss of land and livelihood is a more commonly discussed impact of mining, an invisible impact is on local women who witness a disruption of social structures, burden of earning an extra income, long term mental health issues and a shift from independent cultivators to being dependent on others, besides an uptick in cases of sexual violence. Mayank Aggarwal of Mongabay India reports
Most men are completely insensitive to the sufferings of women: Bani Basu
Dec 19, 2020, at 07:32 pm
The recently published A Plate of White Marble, translated from Sahitya Akademi winning Bengali writer Bani Basu’s book (Swet Patherer Thala) throws up the age-old question of woman’s place in society, and whether financial power changes the equation. Ranjita Biswas in conversation with the author
Nov 17, 2020, at 07:13 pm
In societies set with patriarchal values, middle-aged women trying to chart a life of their own are looked at with suspicion. But some break the norm anyway, as protagonists in two films, one from Georgia and the other from India, show, writes Ranjita Biswas
Women, Water and Workmanship is the theme for this year's WADE ASIA annual conference
Sep 02, 2019, at 03:21 pm
Kolkata, Sep 2 (IBNS): Women, Water and Workmanship is the theme for WADE ASIA's 2019 annual conference & awards event, which will be held in October this year in New Delhi.
Raj Kaur Khaira's new book tells the story of famous and under-celebrated women
Jul 20, 2019, at 03:22 pm
Kolkata, Jul 19 (UNI) A woman is far likely to better tell the story of her compatriot than a man.
Jun 24, 2019, at 02:08 pm
Should women, in this age, be forced to wear high heels, however uncomfortable it may be, citing ‘corporate culture? The jury is out following a protest campaign by women in Japan recently. What is the view in India with a high number of women working in the corporate sector today? Madhumita Mookerji probes
Women much less likely to ask questions in academic seminars than men: Study finds
Oct 01, 2018, at 04:06 pm
London, Oct 1 (IBNS): A new study reveals a stark disparity between male and female participation in a key area of academic life and offers recommendations to ensure all voices are heard.
Female brain reacts more strongly to prosocial behavior, finds study
Oct 12, 2017, at 01:44 am
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IBNS): Behavioral Experiments show that women are more generous than men.
More women opting for work from home for work-life balance: survey
May 12, 2017, at 10:17 pm
Birla Sun Life Insurance launches 'Swabhimaan' campaign for women in Kolkata
Apr 14, 2017, at 02:33 am
Kolkata, Apr 13 (IBNS): Birla Sun Life Insurance (BSLI), the life insurance arm of the Aditya Birla Financial Services Group (ABFSG), a significant non-bank financial services company, has launched a pan India campaign 'Swabhimaan' to educate, empower and employ women in India.
Jun 27, 2016, at 09:54 pm
New Delhi, June 27 (IBNS) There is an urgent need to create more jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities to promote women empowerment thereby making them economically independent as female labour force participation (FLFP) rate in India has fallen significantly by 10 per cent during the last decade, noted a recent ASSOCHAM-Thought Arbitrage Research study.