Seattle-based community organization Women in Cloud will host its sixth annual #empowHERaccess Global Prestige Awards this month to honor entrepreneurs, executives and allies who are driving inclusive economic growth.
In honor of America 250, a documentary about Mississippi entrepreneur Dipa Bhattarai’s legal battle to earn her living, ‘Threading the American Dream’, was screened at the Nepal America International Film Festival. Sarita Bartaula reports.
Women founders receive under 2 percent of VC funding, and barely exist in vendor ecosystems. Unless we act urgently, AI will only accelerate the gender gap in technology, writes Seattle tech entrepreneur Chaitra Vedullapalli.
From Ursula K. Le Guin in the 1960s to SB Divya in the 2020s – if feminist science fiction is anything to go by, future humans will likely do away with the limitations of gender and go nonbinary, writes Aekta Kapoor.
Freedom, history, solidarity – what does Juneteenth mean to African American and South Asian women living in Washington metropolitan area? Sarita Bartaula finds out.
Recent videos and conversations from India and the US reveal a toxic dating culture and patriarchal mindsets where men expect sexual favors in return for paying restaurant bills, writes Venessa Gomes.
Since breast-cancer prognostic tests developed in the West often fail Asian and African women, Indian biotech entrepreneur Dr Manjiri Bakre developed an AI-driven test to help more patients worldwide avoid chemotherapy after surgery.
After encountering severe cases of child sexual abuse during her work as an educator, Shikha Agnihotri set out to address systemic gaps in child protection in schools across India, creating frameworks to keep kids safe.
Public health physician Dr Ramani Atkuri’s new memoir exposes how India’s push for digitization in health and nutrition services glosses over its most vulnerable rural populations, especially women and children.
Like most married couples without children in South Asia, Jammu-based educator Nikita Gupta is often asked why she doesn’t have kids, and given unsolicited advice on why she must. This essay is her response.
New York author Christina Dhanuja talks about her debut book ‘Dalit Women and the Fullness of Life’ in conversation with Delhi-based PhD scholar Kamna Singh and other participants from around the world at eShe Book Club.
Chithra Jeyaram’s documentary ‘Love Chaos Kin’, which screened at the 52nd Seattle International Film Festival this month, explores adoption, love and identity told through the story of an interracial family. Shailaja Rao reports.
Behavioral scientist Dr Nishtha Lamba’s eye-opening new book ‘Trauma Nation’ maps a deep-seated menace of violence, abuse and unhealed trauma in Indian homes. Book review by psychology writer Apoorva Gairola
Senior investigative journalist Namrata Sharma, who received Nepal’s National Journalism Award this month, talks about the recent Gen Z-led political revolution and the state of press freedom in Nepal.
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