How to close the gender gap in South Asia

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Every year on March 8, the world celebrates International Women’s Day (IWD) to reaffirm our collective commitment to achieving gender equality. While great progress has been made in this area, we still have much work to do. FILE – A woman holds balloons and posters to mark International Women’s Day in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, March … Read more

Gender Issues | A tale of two South Asian countries and same-sex marriage (Part 2)

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In my last column, I wrote about how the 2000s played a major role in ensuring the legalization of same-sex marriage in Nepal. A little further south in the Himalayan country, the decade starting in 2001 was equally important for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI+) community. High quality In September 2018, the … Read more

Chief says deleted text messages help convince jurors man killed trans woman because of gender identity

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Jurors faced few problems when they first began weighing the fate of a man accused of murdering a transgender woman he was secretly dating. The conclusion is that he fired“, said the jury foreman. ultra high definition images Dee Elder, a transgender woman from Aiken, South Carolina, told The Associated Press … Read more

A huge gender gap: Globally, young women are becoming more liberal than men, but what about India?

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Not so long ago, we would think of generations as a single entity. That’s what Millennials think, or that’s what Gen Z believes. Representative images (Pexels) Now it turns out that the views of men and women under 30 around the world are increasingly divided. Women have become more liberal in the past decade; men … Read more