SYDNEY: Australian teenage girls are rejecting unrealistic and unhealthy body standards on social media in favor of more positive and authentic online content, according to a new research report. A survey by Deakin University into the online viewing habits of 336 girls aged from 15 to 17 showed they sought information from reliable sources rather […]
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Marriage without consent and Hindu Marriage Act
Twenty-seven-year-old Lakshmi Bai, married for four years, lives with her parents. Belonging to Chhor, in the district of Umerkot, in Sindh province, in 2018, Bai then 23, was married to Raj Kumar, 30, a software engineer from a neighboring village of Dhoronaro who was working in the Netherlands. Within a few months of marriage, Kumar went back to the Netherlands […]
Nationwide protests if Afghan girls’ schools stay shut: activists
Kabul: Women’s rights activists pledged Sunday to launch a wave of protests across Afghanistan if the Taliban fail to reopen girls’ secondary schools within a week. Thousands of secondary school girls had flocked to classes on Wednesday after the government reopened their institutions for the first time since seizing power last August. But officials ordered […]
Is Pakistan committed to bringing all its girls to schools?
Despite encouraging improvements observed during the last ten years or so, Pakistan remains one of the worst performing countries in terms of its education indicators. Girls, across all regions and educational levels remain the worst affected. Nationwide, the net enrolment rate for girls is 53% at the primary level, 21% at middle and only 14% […]
Five game changers for dumb girls
Men don’t necessarily proceed in a politically correct, enlightened fashion to woo the woman of their dreams. Truth be told, there are no dreams for men (except for ‘thug life’ and drowning sorrows in booze). What men think they want and what will actually make them happy are entirely two different things. This is an […]
Women still being killed for ‘honour’ in Pakistan, despite new law
A year since new laws came into force aimed at stemming the flow of “honour killings”, scores of young women in deeply conservative Pakistan are still being murdered by relatives for bringing shame on their family. The shocking murder of Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch by her brother last July turned the spotlight on […]
Pakistani women and cigarettes
Growing up in a conservative, middle-class family taught me a lot of things – the most important one being survival. With high aims and goals set right up at sky-level, I learnt to side-step scandal as soon as I entered my teens. Incredibly sensitised to the idea of what my ‘image’ should be like, even […]