The US military will allow women to serve in the frontline, a photojournalist decides to spend her time in Nepal, friends of Malala in Pakistan secretly pray that she wins the Nobel prize. Read on to find out more on women’s issues.

The working conditions of the women in Pakistan producing colourful bangles are dangerous and exploitative.The film,” Daughters of a lesser God” by Pakistani director Ammar Aziz takes us through the lives of these women.

India is building the world’s first ‘baby factory,’ a woman conceives her baby with the help of latest medical technology and breast cancer survivors in Asia help other victims of the disease by approaching a subject that has been taboo in their cultures until now. Read more to find out the latest on women’s issues.

“Isn’t she lovely,” I said. “Yes, she is, but you know, her mother is divorced,” came the reply. This was the first indirect introduction I got to a 30-year-old female colleague. What she does, who she is, became redundant when people spoke of her. That her mother was divorced was the key piece of information that defined her for others, at least when she was not part of the conversation. And I thought to myself, that is probably how people will introduce my daughter someday…

The first thing that would always come to my mind when someone spoke of acid attacks was a woman victim, until I met a man whose face and body was scarred by an attack masterminded by a woman.

Experts claim that a contraceptive pill that acts up to one month after sex is scientifically possible. India’s northern state Haryana witnesses two cases of honor killing within one week and the World Bank releases a new database on women’s legal rights in the past 50 years. Check out which women’s news made it to the headlines.

I am not a fan of beauty pageants. The shallowness of the whole concept where perfect looking women strut the stage in bikinis and pretty dresses is absurd- the fact that one of them takes the label of Miss World or Miss Universe is even more so.