The National Museum of Women in the Arts brings recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by teaching the public about their accomplishments. The museum is located in Washington, D.C., . To fulfill its mission, the museum cares for and […]

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (Russian: Наталья Сергеевна Гончарова; June 4, 1881 – October 17, 1962) was a  avant-garde artist (Cubo-Futurism), painter and costume designer. She is currently considered ‘the most expensive woman in art’, with her painting, “Picking Apples” (1909) selling at Christie’s Modern and Impressionist sale in 2007 for 4.9 million pounds. The year after, […]

Women’s freedom of movement is very limited in . They are not supposed to leave their houses or their local neighbourhood without the permission of their male guardian, and company of a mahram (close male relative). However, out of necessity most women leave the house alone and often have contact with unrelated men to shop […]

[TOC] Table of Contents 1 Definition 2 Purpose 3 References 4 See Also Definition The Net Enrolment Ratio (NER) is defined by the as enrolment of the official age-group for a given level of education expressed as a percentage of the corresponding population.UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Indicator Definitions: Education Indicators, Techical Guidelines. UNESCO. UNESCO. […]

The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), is an informal, non-hierarchical organization comprising women journalists and others working in or on the media, currently linked to autonomous local collectives of media women in about a dozen places across the country. It is an autonomous body committed to democracy and gender justice within the organization […]

Nino Burjanadze is a politician and lawyer who served as Chairperson for the Georgian Parliament. She was the leader of the opposition movement against the government of Saakashvilli inb 2008. In 2013, she ran for president and ended third (after two men), with 10 per cent of the vote. She is a strong woman that […]

Education and gender: there is a powerful human rights argument and a strong developmental case for achieving in education. It is an affordable investment with high returns. When girls are educated, livelihoods are improved, education is valued, and civic responsibility is enhanced. In most societies, however, deep-seated inequalities result in unequal access to and performance […]

Table of Contents 1 About 2 References 3 See Also 4 External links About Purdah or Pardaa (Persian: پرده, Urdu: پردہ, Hindi: पर्दा, literally meaning “curtain”) is the practice of preventing men from seeing women. This takes two forms: physical segregation of the sexes, and the requirement for women to cover their bodies and conceal […]