Tag: Gender Equality

What aspects should be emphasized while reporting and presenting sensational news? What information should not be made public? How to choose words? A media workshop was organized by UNICEF Odisha to highlight all these issues. Delegates at the workshop on Gender Sensitive Reporting and Writing opined that media reports should challenge gender roles.

Hockey Match Of A Different Kind

Mumbai: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, known for his chivalrous attitude, says nobody has dared to misbehave with a woman on his film sets. The actor, who was feted with a Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos along with Hollywood celebrities Cate Blanchett and Elton John, spoke to BBC World News at […]

Washington: No country in the world is on the track to achieve gender equality by 2030, according to the first index to measure progress against a set of internationally agreed targets. Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said the SDG Gender Index launched on Monday “should serve as a wake-up call […]

By Sandeep Sahu My late mother, I am sure, would have certainly balked at the proposition. She would have been positively horrified at Twin City Commissioner of Police (CP) Sudhansu Sarangi’s exhortation to young women the other day not to marry those who don’t know cooking. A member of the old school, she enjoyed nothing […]