Tag: gender equality

Some social media users have called for boycotting Disney after new Star Wars director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's comments on men surfaced.Chinoy is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker. Her films typically give a voice to feminist issues. Most recently, Chinoy directed Ms. Marvel. A part of Disney's Marvel Cinematic ...

Before the BJP came to power the discussion on the campus used to be around Muslim communities’ educational development, employment and the kind of poverty the people suffer from. That was also the period in which the Sachar Committee Report was in every Muslim intellectual’s – man or woman’s ...

United Nations —  The United Nations secretary-general warned Monday at the start of a major women’s conference that at the current pace, gender equality is projected to be 300 years away. “Progress won over decades is vanishing before our eyes,” Antonio Guterres said at the start of the Commission ...

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): The Virtual International Conference 2022 on Gender Equality: Issues & Challenges was held from July 16-17.The two-day conference was organised by Law Colloquy in association with Oriental University, Indore.The conference aimed to bring together prominent academicians, police officers, policymakers, corporate sectors, professionals, researchers and research scholars ...

Madrasas and other faith-based schools in Asia can cancel out some of the positive impact of increased education access on gender equality and have implications for persistence of patriarchal norms and attitudes in society, according to the UNESCO-published global education monitoring report. The report, on the theme of "deepening ...

Girls’ time to learn affected by increased household chores. Educational disruption due to prolonged closure of schools across the globe will not only have alarming effects on learning loss but also poses threat to gender equality, a new study by UNESCO has pointed out.The global study titled “When schools ...

Bushra Shah, a 35-year-old Pakistani, says she is realising a childhood dream by making the great pilgrimage to Mecca, and under new rules she’s doing it without a male “guardian”.The haj ministry has officially allowed women of all ages to make the pilgrimage without a male relative, known as ...

In the middle of a global debate about social justice, women's rights and quotas for women in companies, Belen Garijo has ascended to the top job at Germany's pharmaceuticals giant Merck. Since the beginning of May, she has been CEO and chair of its executive board. That makes her the first ...

India has fallen 28 spots to rank 140th among 156 countries on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap index. In 2020, India had ranked 112th among 153 countries on the index.“The index benchmarks the evolution of gender-based gaps among four key dimensions – Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational ...

ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan's Education Ministry is facing fierce criticism for banning girls over 12 years of age from singing the national anthem in mixed gender gatherings. The order, dated March 6, came to light Wednesday when someone took a picture of the notice circulated to educational institutions and posted it ...