women icons
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WHO’s first chief scientist talks about her journey, interest in TB and her father MS Swaminathan
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Mattel’s Rosa Parks Barbie doll peddles a simplistic version of history
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With their bravery at Peterloo massacre, British women changed English politics forever
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The woman who defied market traditions and men’s opposition to create Barbie
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Queens, poets, academics, mystics: A calendar celebrates 12 inspirational women of Kashmir
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Shamed and sidelined for too long, plus-size women in Pakistan are now speaking up
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Uproar over Malala’s jeans: For Pakistan, women’s autonomy is a threat to national integrity
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Maryam Mirzakhani’s success showed us the challenges women in maths still face
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Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win Fields Medal in mathematics, dies of cancer
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The first woman to run the Boston Marathon does it again 50 years later
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The 19th-century women doctors of India whose pioneering work has been forgotten by history
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Why even a great writer like Adichie should not be an expert on everything
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The legacy of Savitri Bai: why thousands of women are marching near the RSS headquarters in Nagpur
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Jayalalithaa championed the cause of women in Tamil Nadu, but did she empower them?
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Iraqi woman who survived Islamic State sex slavery named United Nations Goodwill Ambassador
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Photos: Indian acid attack survivor Reshma Qureshi walks the ramp at New York Fashion Week
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Eminent writer Mahasweta Devi dies at 90 in Kolkata
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Before Sanjukta Parashar, there was another gritty female cop from Assam