Let's Stand United Against Violence

First of all Women On Hill (WoH) wishes you a Happy Women's Day! We believed that this year's theme “Women and men united to end violence against women and girls” is the right choice. Across the world we have seen mass atrocities against women in its various forms with some unimaginable stories like a father abusing his daughter for years in Austria.Even in India is no better place for women....

International Women's Day 2009 Theme

Each year around the world, International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8. Hundreds of events occur not just on this day but throughout March to mark the economic, political and social achievements of women.Organisations, governments and women's groups around the world choose different themes each year that reflect global and local gender issues.Some years have seen global IWD themes honoured...

Life Stories to Inspire: Indra Nooyi - CEO, PepsiCo.

Ever wonder how to be influential and reach the top of the world?. Here’s the inspiring story of CEO of PepsiCo and the Fortune / Time magazine’s most influential women in the world - the Chennai born Indra Krishnamoorthy Nooyi:It’s a simple story of a powerful woman. A story of an Indian girl who came from conservative Chennai to pursue higher studies in the US with little money and no safety net....

BIGADDA to Launch Power Women bloggers on Women's Day

BIGADDA.com, the youth networking site from the Reliance ADA Group, would be launching power women from diverse fields to blog on the occasion of International Women’s Day on 8th March 2009. The all-woman power bloggers would include renowned names like actress Pooja Bedi, Media...

Women's Day: The Rise of Fairer Sex

In the big, bad world of Bollywood, there have been few directors of the fairer sex who have managed to swim against the tide, follow their dreams and make a mark for themselves in this majorly male-dominated industry.While names like Deepa Mehta, Mira Nair and Gurinder Chaddha have carved a niche for themselves in the West, there are many of our own female folk who have given us some entertaining...

International Women's Day (8 March 2009)

International Women's Day has been observed since in the early 1900's, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. 1908Great unrest and critical debate was occurring amongst women. Women's oppression and inequality was spurring women to become more vocal and active in campaigning...

Forbes' Powerful Women

The women who are changing not only the societies where they work, but also the role of women in power.Who Is The Most Powerful?"I don't mind how much my ministers talk," baroness Margaret Thatcher once said, "as long as they do what I say." The former British prime minister long ago defied the conventional wisdom that women can gain power only by studiously working behind the scenes to forge consensus....

Women's Rights

Source: WikipediaThe term women's rights refers to freedoms and entitlements of women and girls of all ages. These rights may or may not be institutionalized, ignored or suppressed by law, local custom, and behavior in a particular society. These liberties are grouped together and differentiated from broader notions of human rights because they often differ from the freedoms inherently possessed by...