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Articles tagged with #gender
Future-proofing Nepal’s population strategy
UNFPA Country Representative Won Young Hong talks to Nepali Times about Nepal's population dynamics
The last word on last names
Women in Nepal and America feel similarly about keeping or changing their last names after marriage
Feel angry? Read this.
Archaic patriarchal beliefs will persist for years but you can't let negative emotions consume you
Female foeticide to football
Srijana Singh Thakuri in 2008 as a student in Surkhet. Photo: KOPILA VALLEYMy Dad wanted a son.I was the first daughter and after me came three…
Nepal’s unequal marriages
Men cheat and get away with it, while women are blamed for shaming the family
“The goal is empowerment and independence of women”
As the world celebrates 110th International Women’s Day, Nepali Times caught up with Supreme Court Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla to discuss…
Who were the Charitraheen Cheli?
On 5 March 2004, a clandestine feminist movement emerged in Kathmandu, and in a 40-point declaration to coincide with International Women’s Day,…
Everyday as if it is Women’s Day
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIWhen the Immigration Department last month proposed travel restrictions for women under 40, Nepalis took to the streets…
Women are from Mars
Now that NASA has its Perseverance SUV and Ingenuity drone on the surface of the Red Planet, we will finally know if men are indeed from Mars.…
About women by women
It is a privilege to be able to read, understand and appreciate the depth of women’s writing and the expanse of their ideas. But it was several…
Lockdown and the surge in domestic violence
Popular singer and songwriter Samriddhi Rai tweeted this at 4:05 in the morning of Thursday March 26. With the surge in COVID-19 cases around…
Newswomen
Sahina Shrestha, Digital Products StrategistAs the results of the Sharecast Initiative Nepal Survey 2020 featured in this issue show, Nepal is…
Female guides juggle work and home
Neena Singh SkambraksNepal’s trekking industry has been dominated by male guides, but a growing number of women are entering the profession as…
No Speaker, no Parliament in Nepal
Illustration: Diwakar ChhetriAn ongoing impasse over the Speaker at the House of Representatives has once more brought to the fore the power…
A nostalgic Hindustani novel
Amitabha Bagchi reeives the DSC prize 2019 from Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Nepal Literature Festival in Pokhara in…
Nepal in the 2020s
Photo : SONIA AWALENepal is stepping up preparations for its 10-year census in 2021, which is slated to be the most hitech in history and will…
Prabal Gurung by Prabal Gurung
Singapore-born Nepali American designer Prabal Gurung has brought out a pictorial autobiography of his life and career in a hefty coffee table…
Alarming rise in violence against women
Rinadevi Mahara from Dhanusha, abandoned at Godavari Modern Hospital in Janakpur for lack of money to pay hospital chargesAjaya Anuragi in Himal…
Using numbers to fight gender-based violence
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls on 25 November, let us pledge to help end gender-based violence.
The rise and fall of Comrade Mahara
Wearing a plain white polo shirt and a hint of a smile, former House Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara walked out of Norvic Hospital on Tuesday…
Miss Guided
As surely as night follows day (or is it the other way around?) it is now that time of year again when we celebrate the season of beauty…
Replaying male machismo
Lee and Austin are brothers who don’t seem to have much in common. Austin is a cultured man with an Ivy League degree trying to make it as a…
Dance-drama takes trafficking head-on
Human trafficking makes for dramatic stories of suffering, struggle and survival, which is why it is frequently the theme on stage and screen…
Shanti Chaudhary: Poet-at-large
When Shanti Chaudhary was born in Kathmandu on 28 December, 1955, she possibly was the first Tharu person to be born in the capital. Her father…