This exchange really took place. At a dinner in the Beverley Hills home of Benedict Bogeaus, junkyard dealer turned movie producer, he declared to his showbiz guests, “We have a woman…
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This is a moment to remember! A prince expresses his love to a commoner and proposes marriage, and she turns him down. She wants to make her own place in…
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The world is watching in horror as the Taliban take over Afghanistan once again — the deaths, the exodus and worst of all, the tragic fact that women will be…
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Before the corona virus sent the world reeling, Christina Sweeney-Baird had written a somewhat prescient book about a similarly vicious virus let loose across the globe, the difference being that…
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Imagine a scenario in an Indian police station, where a young woman has gone to report a rape. The first thing she will go through is a visual sweep of…
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More often than not, when cases of workplace sexual harassment make it to the news, they are from high-profile professions like films, fashion or media. But women in ordinary jobs,…
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At some point in the march of the women’s movement, the word ‘housewife’ became politically incorrect and was replaced by ‘homemaker’. Women who did not have careers, or rather,…
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The first collection of humour by women that came out in 1976 was called Titters. Because well-bred women did not laugh loudly in polite company, they put their hands over their…
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“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.” Mary Wollstonecraft encapsulated the essence of feminism in these words, before the term was even coined. The…
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No matter how many times you see it, the scene when a green Thunderbird soars into a canyon taking the two women in it to certain death, the eyes mist…