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Women engineers trace tech gender gap to childhood
Silicon Valley companies portray themselves as inventors of the future, but they're afflicted by a longstanding problem.From board rooms to "brogrammers," men still dominate many corners of the tech industry, where the pantheon of famous founders — from Hewlett and Packard to Jobs to Zuckerberg — is still a boys' bastion.The gender-imbalance issue came to the forefront again recently

Poor Muslim women connect to global fashion with crafts
Marginalised Muslim craftswomen and weavers in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and in the capital are making an international connection with their work thanks to two projects by the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), one of the country's oldest crafts and women's empowerment organisations.

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32 years after attack, Pakistani woman gets nose

After six years of abuse, Allah Rakhi was walking out of her marriage when her husband struck again. Snatching a knife, he sliced off her nose. "You're no longer beautiful!" he shouted.He then slashed

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'India, US need to foster women entrepreneurship'
India and the US need to engage more to develop entrepreneurship among women, an American diplomat said as the two countries are scheduled to deliberate on the subject during the third Indo-US Strategic Dialogue later this month.

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Science scholarships for young women

Ten scholarships worth Rs. 2.5 lakhs each to deserving Class XII science girl candidates from Delhi, NCR & MaharashtraNew Delhi: In its efforts to encourage women to pursue careers in science,

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Observe a woman's walk to know her sexual history, says study

Women who have orgasms during sexual intercourse walk differently, a new study has revealed. For the study, Belgian researchers watched videos of women walking, and were able to tell whether they

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