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Every so often a piece of news pops up that makes you realise, that for every step women take to go forward, there is some hurdle placed in their way to make the journey difficult, if not downright dangerous. A few weeks ago,  Yumi Ishikawa, a 32-year-old Japense model and actress, tweeted that employers in Japan should not be allowed to force women to wear high  heels  to work. Turns out several corporate companies have a dress code that requires women to wear high  heels . Now everyone knows the health hazards of wearing  heels , the damage done to knees and spine in the long run, but it seems corporate bosses don’t care. Ishikawa also started an online petition asking the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to prevent employers from forcing high   heels   on women, and gathered thousands of signatures. According to a report by Aria Hangyu Chen in  Time  magazine, “The campaign also ignited passionate online discourse, as many w...

There are sighting all over the city—these slim, smart-looking, young women in khaki, guarding the women’s compartment in local trains, on bandobast   duty at rallies, pacifying female complainants at the police station. They seem to be a far cry from the fiery, Kiran Bedi-inspired women cops seen in movies—fighting all kinds of villains, A glimpse of what their lives are actually like, is caught in  Ivan Ayr’s film Soni.  The eponymous character is a determined young beat cop (played by Geetika Vidya Ohlyan), who, when the film opens, is cycling down a dark road as a decoy in an operation to nab Delhi’s molesters. As can be expected a man pursues her, but when he grabs her hand, she beats him up. Before the other members of the team arrive, she has broken the man’s jaw.  For this, clear act of self defense, she is reprimanded, while every woman watching the film, must have imagined what could have happened to them in such a situation, since not all of them are ...