The glass ceiling: How far have we got and what plans we have of dealing with it?

A friend called up yesterday. She wanted to talk about something important. (Just for the info, she is a fresher and works for a highly reputed IT company with a sprawling campus in Pune). She started talking about how her team of 15 had just two women and how the entire team was biased towards [...]

When life ends at twelve.

Cross posted from Indian Homemaker’s Blog. (Yemen) …”a 12-year-old girl died in childbirth after an agonizing 3-day labor.  …young Fawziya was pulled out of school and married to a man twice her age.“ She isn’t the only one. The issue of Yemeni child brides came to the forefront last year, with 8-year-old Nujood Ali who “was pulled out [...]