• L-3R) Indian wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Anshu Malik, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik along with others wrestlers take part in an ongoing protest against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), in New Delhi on January 19, 2023, following allegations of sexual harassment to athletes by members of the WFI. (christianpost.com)
  • The 2023 edition of the Women's T20 World Cup 2023 has its four semi-finalists with Australia, England, India, and South Africa fighting for the title. (wsn.com)
  • During his Independence Day speech in August 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to visit at least 15 tourist destinations within India by 2022, and this an attempt to popularise and create awareness on tourist destinations through social media. (indiatimes.com)
  • The status of women in India has been subject to many changes over the time of recorded India's history. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is an important step towards implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals as well as India's obligations under the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. (ohchr.org)
  • India's solution is free sterilizations for men and women. (scrippsnews.com)
  • And women in the sports arena are proving it to this very day, whether through the power-packed tennis of a Serena Williams or the quicksilver boxing of India's own Mary Kom, five-time women's world champ. (asiasentinel.com)
  • The second part of the event will trace the story of colonial India's women beneath the surface - over 77,000 women miners who played a pivotal role in solving an Allied coal crisis while battling famine, inflation, and an increasingly coercive labour regime. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • By the time those were written (the "epic period" of India's history), the position of women had deteriorated considerably, although there still existed women called brahma-vadinis, who devoted their lives to study and spiritual meditation and who participated in the philosophical discussions. (hinduismtoday.com)
  • Triple Commonwealth Games gold medallist Vinesh Phogat, one of India's most decorated women wrestlers, has accused her federation chief and several coaches of sexually harassing multiple athletes. (christianpost.com)
  • While a few sportsmen, public figures, and political leaders have stated their support of these women, India's most elite and wealthiest athletes from the cricket fraternity are condemned by their own silence. (christianpost.com)
  • It's not only a problem for women like Singh, but a growing challenge for India's own economic ambitions if its estimated 670 million women are left behind as its population expands. (kron4.com)
  • While women play an important role in Indian society, they remain a neglected segment of India's paid labour force. (bain.com)
  • Courts had earlier directed officials at the Hindu temple Shani Shingapur and the Muslim Haji Ali shrine, both in the western state of Maharashtra, to allow women inside. (bbc.com)
  • More than half of the women (52 percent) came from states other than Karnataka, including Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamilnadu. (disabled-world.com)
  • A model of integrated multidisciplinary PCOS clinic was implemented for services and research at ICMR-National Institute for Research in Reproductive and Child Health (NIRRCH), Mumbai Maharashtra, India . (bvsalud.org)
  • Secondly, there is lots of scope to inspire and enable the 'latent' but ambitious women solopreneurs and small business owners and expand the funnel. (deccanherald.com)
  • For this brief, we surveyed and conducted in-depth interviews with close to 350 women solopreneurs and small business owners in urban India to understand the impact, challenges and opportunities that Covid-19 has triggered for women entrepreneurs. (bain.com)
  • Towards identifying and ranking selected types of violence against women in North India 3. (routledge.com)
  • While the Western religions are male-centric, the largest pilgrimage site in North India (and second largest in the entire country) is Vaishno Devi. (hinduismtoday.com)
  • Generally, North India is much more patriarchal. (vice.com)
  • New Delhi is witnessing the spectacle of women wrestlers (who have won international medals for India) protesting their sexual abuse by the President of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) , Brijbhushan Sharan Singh. (christianpost.com)
  • In this particular case, where other wrestlers and even farmers from northern India have expressed public support for these women, the Supreme Court had to intervene to get the Delhi police to even file a case. (christianpost.com)
  • This might have been another horrific but hardly noticed blip of violence in Delhi, dubbed the "rape capital" in popular media shorthand, but because of the seemingly safe neighborhood and the brutality of the crimes, this incident has become a rallying cry for the issue of women's safety-something long-ignored in India. (vice.com)
  • Delhi is particularly infamous for being unsafe for women. (vice.com)
  • Indira Gandhi, who served as Prime Minister of India for an aggregate period of fifteen years, is the world's longest serving female Prime Minister. (wikipedia.org)
  • India is the world's top sterilizer of women. (scrippsnews.com)
  • India will soon eclipse China to become the world's most populous country, and its economy is among the fastest-growing. (kron4.com)
  • India is on the cusp of surpassing China to become the world's most populous country, and its economy is among the fastest-growing in the world. (kron4.com)
  • EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means for the 1.4 billion inhabitants of India to live in what will be the world's most populated country. (kron4.com)
  • As the world's fastest-growing economy, internet access across India is rapidly increasing and, by 2017, it's expected to become the second largest smartphone market on the planet. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • This landmark bill, passed by both houses of parliament, will also constitutionally entrench women's representation in parliament, and be a transformative move in upholding the right to participation for women and gender equality in India. (ohchr.org)
  • On January 30, I received a call from a woman who introduced herself as an employee of a courier company in Mumbai and said that gold and foreign currency had arrived in my name," said Sampa Pal, a resident of DLF Phase-4. (punchng.com)
  • During questioning, the suspects revealed that the Nigerian man was deported from Mumbai eight years ago, who returned to India on a Schengen visa and another passport. (punchng.com)
  • Mumbai-based senior science writer, Padma Prakash observed in a monograph she wrote in the early 1990s on women and sport, that 'nowhere is this myth of (women's) biological inferiority so readily and forcefully demonstrable as in the sports arena. (asiasentinel.com)
  • MUMBAI, India (AP) - Sheela Singh cried the day she handed in her resignation. (kron4.com)
  • After an arduous 24-hour journey, I arrived in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India on August 21, 2011 at 10 pm to discuss ongoing and planned collaborations with multiple Indian government agencies on environmental health issues. (cdc.gov)
  • The head-to-head record between Australia and India women doesn't reflect it but they do share a competitive rivalry in recent years. (wsn.com)
  • The annual growth in the number of social media users in India is 4.2 per cent, with more than 19 million new users added in 2021. (deccanherald.com)
  • Despite the pronounced gendered approach to policy initiatives recently in India, the country slipped 21 places between 2016 and 2017 in The Global Gender Gap Report released by the World Economic Forum. (livemint.com)
  • The campaign to allow women into the temple gathered momentum in 2016 after a protest by female students. (bbc.com)
  • In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) outlined a vision for QoC, where "every pregnant woman and newborn receives quality care throughout pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period".6 The conceptual framework for its implementation encompasses improving both provision of care and the patient's experience of care. (who.int)
  • Impact of a mobility program 'Naris of Narayanpet' on rural women of Narayanpet, a district in Telangana, India. (ted.com)
  • More recently, in 1995, India committed itself to the Beijing Platform, which urges governments to enable girls to participate in sport and physical activity on the same basis as men and boys through the creation of programs in schools, at the workplace and in the community. (asiasentinel.com)
  • India has had more than 270,000 farmer suicides since 1995. (cdc.gov)
  • ACM-W India is pleased to announce the virtual Poster Presentation Competition for UG/PG girl students of CS/CE and IT branches during the ACM-W India Celebration of Women in Computing 2020 (AICWiC 2020) virtual event being organised on 5 September 2020. (acm.org)
  • Policy debates around agriculture and nutrition and the crucial role of women needs to be informed by evidence that research programmes like LANSA generate. (eldis.org)
  • The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action ( MAMA ) uses mobile phones to deliver vital health information to new and expectant mothers, supporting programmes in India, Bangladesh and Africa. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • There has been a rise in labour force participation rates among urban unmarried women between 1999-2011, from 37% to 50%, but, for married women, it has been stagnant for 30 years. (livemint.com)
  • Juxtaposed against a rapid increase in the number of years women get an education, an increase in age for marriage and a reduction in fertility levels, these trends seem contradictory to the trend of labour force participation seen in India. (livemint.com)
  • While the number of children born to a woman has come down (two in urban areas and 2.5 in rural areas in 2015), this may not necessarily increase women's labour force attachment if households place greater importance on the quality of their progeny. (livemint.com)
  • Are women more likely to (re)enter the labour force once the children have grown up? (livemint.com)
  • Attempting to understand how large-scale socio-economic upheaval impacted women's work and survival, this event will focus first on the women abandoned or sold by their families in the wake of the Bengal Famine of 1943, who found themselves in the Labour Corps. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • In addition to low (and falling) female labour force participation rates, women experience three times more unemployment than men, thus limiting the country's advancement by not recognising and capitalising on this large pool of talent and enterprise. (bain.com)
  • UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk welcomes the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in India, which will reserve one third of seats in national and state parliaments for women. (ohchr.org)
  • Lok Sabha passed the women's reservation bill on Wednesday, which will reserve a third of seats for women in national and state legislatures with an overwhelming majority, marking the first time such legislation has cleared the Lower House since a similar bill was first introduced nearly three decades ago. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Several women have served in various senior official positions in the Indian government, including that of the President of India, the Prime Minister of India, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chandramukhi Basu, Kadambini Ganguly and Anandi Gopal Joshi were some of the earliest Indian women to obtain a degree. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Constitution of India guarantees to all Indian women equality (Article 14), no discrimination by the State (Article 15(1)), equality of opportunity (Article 16), equal pay for equal work (Article 39(d)) and Article 42. (wikipedia.org)
  • The India Corporate Council (ICC) promotes diversity and inclusion in the Indian engineering and technology community. (swe.org)
  • For the past two days, he has argued that Saturday's assault on the women was justifiable because his men were preserving Indian culture and moral values. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Nirbhaya is the name given by the Indian media to the 23-year-old woman who was raped and beaten by several men aboard a public bus on December 16, 2012. (cnn.com)
  • With patriarchal norms underlying the traditional role of men and women in Indian households and non-marketization of childcare, coupled with a shift towards nuclear families, the burden of domestic work lies on women. (livemint.com)
  • The high potential of women entrepreneurship in India is corroborated by a recent study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which shows that Indian women are twice as likely as men to start their businesses and are more likely than men to see entrepreneurship as a good career choice. (deccanherald.com)
  • So why aren't more Indian women becoming entrepreneurs? (deccanherald.com)
  • Only 3 per cent of Indian women have access to formal financial institutions, such as banks or microfinance institutions. (deccanherald.com)
  • From 2013 to 2014, over 4 million Indian women had the surgery, making it the most popular form of birth control. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Rao, an Indian American, spent five months studying mentally ill homeless women in the city of Mysore in the state of Karnataka, India. (disabled-world.com)
  • However, Indian families are reluctant for moral reasons to accept a female family member who has wandered away for a long period of time. (disabled-world.com)
  • A Nigerian, alongside three Indians, has been arrested in India for allegedly cheating several Indian women on matrimonial applications, the Indian police said on Thursday. (punchng.com)
  • Women, transwomen, Indians and those who are interested in articles related to Indian women are particularly encouraged to attend. (wikimedia.org)
  • This event is aimed at increasing the quality and number of articles related to Indian women scientists. (wikimedia.org)
  • THEY CALL IT A BAD RAP WHEN SOMEONE is wrongly accused of something, and in recent Indian history both women and Hinduism have suffered just such an injustice. (hinduismtoday.com)
  • No major Indian business house has a woman CEO. (indiatimes.com)
  • But the number of Indian women in the workforce, already among the 20 lowest in the world, has been shrinking for decades. (kron4.com)
  • Holding placards, chanting slogans, and demanding change demonstrators called out a host of issues like class division, cultural mysogny, and sexual repression while expressing shock, anger, and disdain for the ghastly acts committed and the Indian government's history of apathy regarding violence against women. (vice.com)
  • Diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) can have particularly severe consequences for Indian women during their reproductive years. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • So ELI placed her in Chennai, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu where Aimee worked at a respected social services non-profit that focuses on impoverished and trafficked women, disadvantaged children and the elderly. (eliabroad.org)
  • In 1952, Schwartz coined the term atrophica idiopathica mucosa oris to describe an oral fibrosing disease he discovered in 5 Indian women from Kenya. (medscape.com)
  • This was Indian Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) resident, Dr. Santanu Sen, as he was conducting an interview with a local woman, dressed in her blue-colored sari, regarding her knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP), when dealing with malaria. (cdc.gov)
  • Collaborating with state government in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh to improve the coverage and consumption of IFA and calcium supplements among pregnant and lactating women. (who.int)
  • Crowds of angry Hindu devotees have prevented women from entering one of Hinduism's holiest temples despite a historic Supreme Court ruling. (bbc.com)
  • in marine fishing communities in India, for example, women comprise about 75 per cent of those engaged in fish marketing. (fao.org)
  • As per recent figures, women comprise 14 per cent of the total entrepreneurs in India, which works out to 8 million. (deccanherald.com)
  • However, there is a particular lack of information about the prevention and management of atherosclerotic heart disease in women from a range of communities that comprise the extremely diverse population of India. (bmj.com)
  • The National Sample Survey shows that among working-age women who are currently not enrolled in educational institutes, LFP stood at 37% in 2011, registering a 10% fall over 20 years. (livemint.com)
  • While the average years of education acquired by a girl who is 15-19 years is low (8.5 and 10 in rural and urban India, respectively), even for a girl with graduate or higher education, the mean age at first marriage is 23 years and mean age at first birth is 24 years. (livemint.com)
  • In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of women entrepreneurs in India. (deccanherald.com)
  • According to a recent survey, the number of women-owned businesses in India has increased by 20 per cent over the past five years. (deccanherald.com)
  • There are three primary reasons for this steady rise of women entrepreneurship in India that gives us confidence that within the next five years, India will become a hub for women entrepreneurs. (deccanherald.com)
  • Looking back at the evolution of woman entrepreneurship in India over the years and the positive trends, notable opportunities exemplify the vast potential of women entrepreneurship in India. (deccanherald.com)
  • Then, of course, there is the difference in their reproductive roles: Women attain puberty at least two years earlier than men, have a greater body fat percentage and give birth - a function that does impact greatly on their ability to participate in sports. (asiasentinel.com)
  • Clearly, even 4,000 years ago, women knew how to get the best out of their bodies. (asiasentinel.com)
  • An analysis by the ET Intelligence Group shows that it has taken 15 long years for a measly 17 women to rise to the CEO job in the 500 largest listed companies in India. (indiatimes.com)
  • Over the last three years, Nominet Trust's quest to find new and inspirational social tech projects for our NT100 showcase has shone a light upon three mobile technology initiatives in India. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • RSKS India is successfully working to stop violence against women from the last 30 years and the little efforts of the organization have surely changed the mindset of many people still there is much more work to be done to eradicate this social evil from the whole society. (globalgiving.org)
  • In January 2011, a woman born in India, aged 30 years, had a BLL of 64 µ g/dL during week 27 of pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • In May 2011, a woman born in Colombia, aged 36 years, had a BLL of 16 µ g/dL reported during week 5 of pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • Fetal death occurred in 141 of the 900 analyzed pregnancies, more often in women less than 20 years of age, in their third trimester, seeking treatment more than 24 hours after symptom onset, with severe dehydration or who vomited. (cdc.gov)
  • Women less than 20 years of age were twice as likely as older women to experience fetal death. (cdc.gov)
  • [ 6 ] Betel quid chewing is a habit practiced predominately in Southeast Asia and India that dates back for thousands of years. (medscape.com)
  • In an attempt to revive the tourism industry that was hit due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a team of seven women bloggers, who are also social media influences, are travelling across coastal Karnataka, as part of the 'Dekho Apna Desh' domestic tourism campaign. (indiatimes.com)
  • The women bloggers and travel writers tour of coastal Karnataka was organised from March 1 to 6. (indiatimes.com)
  • A first-of-its-kind initiative by India Tourism in Karnataka, this has been launched on an experimental basis, and after assessing the social media impact and evaluating the entire project, more such circuits will be planned in Karnataka," he said. (indiatimes.com)
  • What are some of the initiatives, governmental and non-governmental, that have been taken to support women fishworkers? (fao.org)
  • As a partner, you can help support critical outreach programs and initiatives that reinforce diversity programming to aid the recruitment, advancement and success of women engineers. (swe.org)
  • The good news is that there are several initiatives to help female entrepreneurs in India, and Niti Aayog has taken the lead with initiatives like the Women's Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP), a unified portal and a one-stop shop for all things related to women's entrepreneurship in India. (deccanherald.com)
  • Earlier studies in India, Nigeria, and Pakistan found higher proportions. (cdc.gov)
  • Every woman athlete in the country would understand the humiliation of a P.T. Usha, one of the country's greatest athletes of all time, who broke down before television cameras during the National Open Athletics Championship in Bhopal in 2009, after being denied accommodation in keeping with her status - she was asked to share a room with five other women. (asiasentinel.com)
  • Hema Malini added that all of country's women would participate in the development. (hindustantimes.com)
  • All women are going to participate in the country's development. (hindustantimes.com)
  • The 432 million women of working age in India are the country's largest under-tapped economic resource. (bain.com)
  • The rates of malnutrition are exceptionally high among adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women in India, with repercussions for children's health. (wikipedia.org)
  • The discussions centered on ongoing collaborations regarding women and children's health. (cdc.gov)
  • Violence against women, especially sexual violence, is a serious concern in India. (wikipedia.org)
  • Srishti Bakshi works to address gender-based violence by increasing mobility options for women. (ted.com)
  • Women in India constitute nearly half of its population of over a billion people, and this book is a rigorous social scientific examination of the issue of violence against women in India. (routledge.com)
  • Exploring the trend of violence against women in India 2. (routledge.com)
  • Community effects on women's help-seeking behaviour for intimate partner violence in India: gender disparity, feminist theory, and empowerment 7. (routledge.com)
  • Rajasthan Samgrah Kalyan Sansthan organized many types of awareness activities in this year's International Pushkar Fair to aware people about different social evils like child marriage, gender based violence, violence against women, dowry etc. (globalgiving.org)
  • All of this awareness was done under the Her Voice: Stop Violence Against Women project of RSKS India. (globalgiving.org)
  • The violence against women and girls must be stopped to have a better nation and a better world but still in this 21st century it has not been achieved till yet. (globalgiving.org)
  • These programs are done to raise awareness and educate the rural as well as urban people to stand together against the violence done on women and girls. (globalgiving.org)
  • We stress the importance of fostering an enabling environment for the participation of women from all backgrounds in public life - which can have profound, positive implications for society as a whole. (ohchr.org)
  • In urban areas, while there has been no decline in participation by married women over time, the figure has been stagnating. (livemint.com)
  • Peary Charan Sarkar, a former student of Hindu College, Calcutta and a member of "Young Bengal", set up the first free school for girls in India in 1847 in Barasat, a suburb of Calcutta (later the school was named Kalikrishna Girls' High School). (wikipedia.org)
  • The Rural Urban Distribution Initiative (RUDI) was set up in India in 2004 by the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA). (eldis.org)
  • We reviewed the current joint projects and discussed the proposal to develop a biomonitoring initiative for India. (cdc.gov)
  • The answer may lie in analysing some of the challenges women entrepreneurs face in India. (deccanherald.com)
  • Having said this, a steadily growing tribe of woman entrepreneurs in India provides a great deal of confidence for a positive direction that the entrepreneurial landscape for women is taking, cutting across woman-friendly enterprises like cottage industries to new-age startups. (deccanherald.com)
  • Although the figures are small, notably, they represent a steady rise in women entrepreneurs, which is a welcome trend. (deccanherald.com)
  • The survey also found that women entrepreneurs are more likely to be educated and to have prior work experience than their male counterparts. (deccanherald.com)
  • Access to capital has been the biggest bane of women entrepreneurs in India. (deccanherald.com)
  • This provides a massive captive online business audience, especially for women entrepreneurs with mobility issues. (deccanherald.com)
  • Firstly, we can increasingly see a level-playing field for female entrepreneurs, although there is much more to be done. (deccanherald.com)
  • All led by incredible female entrepreneurs, they are not only radically improving the daily lives of women, but also forming part of a more significant movement towards gender parity. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • Can Covid-19 Be the Turning Point for Women Entrepreneurs in India? (bain.com)
  • Women entrepreneurs have responded to the pandemic with enterprise, agility and optimism. (bain.com)
  • Seventy-three percent of the women entrepreneurs have been negatively impacted by the crisis, with almost 20% witnessing the revenue of their businesses nearly wiped out. (bain.com)
  • ACM-W India provides a set of opportunities for girl students to explore, enhance and expand their coding, research and presentation skills. (acm.org)
  • Low-caste and indigenous (Adivasi) women disproportionately bore the effects of galloping inflation and the burden of starvation. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Covid-19 and the ensuing disruption has disproportionately impacted women. (bain.com)
  • The discourse on economic development has become increasingly gendered, in recognition of both the ethical construct of equality between men and women and the realization that women's empowerment generates positive externalities. (livemint.com)
  • The leader of a right-wing group is among a number of new arrests that have followed an assault on women drinking in a bar in the city of Mangalore. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The explanations for this decline have circled around rising incomes, the changing education structure and the decline in number of agricultural jobs.What is missing from this discourse is the focus on one specific demographic group-married women. (livemint.com)
  • Yet experts worry this could just as easily become a demographic liability if India fails to ensure its rising population, especially its women, are employed. (kron4.com)
  • In addition, it allows special provisions to be made by the State in favour of women and children (Article 15(3)), renounces practices derogatory to the dignity of women (Article 51(A) (e)), and also allows for provisions to be made by the State for securing just and humane conditions of work and for maternity relief. (wikipedia.org)
  • This paper systematically reviews the evidence on what capacities the state requires to leverage agriculture for nutrition in fragile contexts, maintaining a focus on state in South Asia (especially India). (eldis.org)
  • In November 2014, 15 women died at two state-run 'sterilization camps. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Mapping women's experiences with transport and their inhibited mobility patterns in urban Bihar, a state in India characterized by rigid gender norms. (ted.com)
  • With a colonial state that failed them, these women were not simply passive recipients of charity but actively looked for ways to survive, and in doing so, became part of an immense global supply chain supporting the Allied Second World War effort. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Raigarh, a city of 300,000 in the state of Chhattisgarh, India has become the first city in India to elect a transgender mayor. (feminist.org)
  • SRINAGAR: Out of 30 women contestants, who fought the 2014 Assembly elections, only two have made it to the state Legislative Assembly. (tribuneindia.com)
  • The women representation in the state Assembly is witnessing a decline at a time when all major contesting parties, including the NC, the Congress and the PDP, had included 33 per cent women reservation in their manifestos. (tribuneindia.com)
  • The BJP had fielded a maximum of five women candidates, including its Kashmir face Hina Bhat, in the state Assembly elections. (tribuneindia.com)
  • Shameema Firdous, who is also the chairperson of the State Women Commission, was re-elected from Habba Kadal. (tribuneindia.com)
  • All six cases were in foreign-born pregnant women assessed for lead exposure risk by health-care providers during prenatal visits, as required by New York state law. (cdc.gov)
  • But our correspondent says that right-wing Hindu vigilante groups loosely linked to the BJP are active in many parts of India and have in the past targeted Muslim and Christian minorities as well as events such as Valentine's Day celebrations. (bbc.co.uk)
  • So it's no wonder the female wrestlers have taken their protest "global" now . (christianpost.com)
  • Lack of sexual desire is a common problem in women. (indiatimes.com)
  • It can be used as medicine in menopausal women to improve their sexual desire. (indiatimes.com)
  • These processes are important for the sexual response in women and, hence, it is said that GBE may have a therapeutic effect. (indiatimes.com)
  • The leaves of this shrub have been traditionally used as an aphrodisiac to boost sexual arousal in both men and women. (indiatimes.com)
  • Extreme cases and the criminal justice system: responses to a traumatic sexual assault in India 4. (routledge.com)
  • Often such biases turn positively toxic, especially when women sportspersons come to be regarded as sexual prey. (asiasentinel.com)
  • It is a branded local network for the procurement, marketing, and distribution of agricultural products by rural women and is owned by the small-scale farmers and rural women involved. (eldis.org)
  • The suicide rate for male farmers has remained high compared to female farmers: just under two times that of the general population. (cdc.gov)
  • The lack of legal action taken against the President of the Wrestling Federation of India is perhaps the most significant example yet as to why India is still known around the globe as an unsafe place for women. (christianpost.com)
  • In April 2012, MSF established a CTC to improve fetal outcomes in pregnant women by facilitating intensive follow- up for dehydration and rapid access to obstetric and neonatal services. (cdc.gov)
  • TB is one of the top five causes of death for adult women aged 20-59 and India has the highest number of TB sufferers globally, with 220,000 total deaths in 2014 according to the World Health Organisation . (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • The All India Women's Education Conference was held in Pune in 1927, it became a major organisation in the movement for social change. (wikipedia.org)
  • I spoke to feminist activist and adviser to Sangat South Asia , Kamla Bhasin, about how the nation's grief over this tragic event might precipitate change and how a rapidly modernizing India presents opportunities and problems for women's safety. (vice.com)
  • Dr. Katoch and I both stressed the need for all of our joint projects to develop plans that included the eventual translation of the projects into public health interventions and strategies that would benefit all of India and serve to inform public health practice in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • Well, that country is India and the class of citizens kept out of combat duties is women. (rediff.com)
  • Now women can sell products right from the comfort of their homes anywhere across the country and globally. (deccanherald.com)
  • On a mission to create safer public spaces, women's rights advocate Srishti Bakshi talks about how she embarked on a 2,300-mile walk across the length of India (a distance equivalent to traveling from New York City to Los Angeles), conducting driving workshops to empower women's mobility across the country. (ted.com)
  • Yet, we need to recognize that every woman who excels in sports has to work immeasurably harder than her male counterparts to reach where she is, more so in a country like India where gender discrimination is hardwired into social reality. (asiasentinel.com)
  • According to MAMA, India accounts for 17 per cent of global maternal mortality, 27 per cent of global newborn mortality and 25 per cent of global child mortality - the largest share of any country. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • Known as mMitra (mitra literally meaning 'friend' in Hindi), the digital service sends free pregnancy and child health information to pregnant women and new mothers twice each week, in a language and at a time of their choosing. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
  • Women in the second half of pregnancy with BLLs 45-69 µ g/dL are considered for chelation therapy. (cdc.gov)
  • She had obtained Pregnita from a practitioner in India who prescribed it for pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting. (cdc.gov)
  • She had used two Ayurvedic medications manufactured in India for skin problems (1 tablet of each daily) approximately 1-2 months before pregnancy and sporadically used the medications during the first month of pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • Pregnancy and the postnatal period are critical times for ensuring the health and wellbeing of women and their children. (who.int)
  • Psychological issues such as anxiety and depression were identified in majority of the women 31.4 per cent of women could achieve pregnancy at the end of one year of multidisciplinary management. (bvsalud.org)
  • According to a report by NASSCOM, the percentage of women-led startups in India has increased from 8 per cent in 2014 to 13 per cent in 2019. (deccanherald.com)
  • In our earlier report Powering the Economy with Her: Women Entrepreneurship in India , we determined how women's entrepreneurship can be a catalyst for change in their economic role in India. (bain.com)
  • The six patients in this report all were asymptomatic pregnant women whose health-care providers assessed them to be at risk for lead exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • DOHMH identified 10 of these 22 products during investigations of the six pregnant women with lead poisoning described in this report. (cdc.gov)