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Female bouncer Mehrunissa Shaukat tosses gender bias out of bars

Female bouncer Mehrunissa Shaukat tosses gender bias out of bars

December 29, 2022

She still recalls the time when she, along with her family, shifted from Saharanpur, a small, sleepy town in the hills of Uttar Pradesh to the bustling capital New Delhi. It was in 2003 that Mehrunissa Shaukat Ali was forced to move, along with her family,  as her father had inc...

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Growing gender gap in STEM jobs in India

Growing gender gap in STEM jobs in India

October 10, 2021

With the digital revolution rapidly gaining ground in India, driven by enormous investments in technology and a huge market of digitally-connected users, currently at 560 million consumers, the country is well on its way to possibly becoming one of the world leaders in science an...

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A dialogue on gender equality

A dialogue on gender equality

December 13, 2017

Following the launch of Bonjour India, a one-day intense platform for exchanges on gender equality- ‘Equal World Equal Spaces’, organised by French Institute in India in association with Women Work & Health Initiative (WWHI), a non-profit organisation.

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