Two New York bills that sought to add caste as a protected category under the state's Human Rights Law failed to advance ...

Two bills that sought to add caste as a protected category under New York's anti-discrimination laws failed to advance this ...

The Coalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA) is pleased that New York Senate Bill S.6531 and House Bill A.6920 did not ...

Anyone traveling in November and December by train in the southern districts of Kerala, the southwestern state of India, would see crowded compartments filled with men, children and older women clad ...

The thorough and comprehensive Burns Halperin Report 2022 awakens the somnolent to America’s caste substructure. The report defines female as “any artist who identifies herself as a woman.” It defines ...

Forced evictions of Delhi’s Dalit community, 2012. Demotix/Andy Ash. All rights reserved.“One need not have been Caesar, to understand Caesar”, sociologist Max ...

The Supreme Court’s “unease” with the 2023 Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes is reportedly driving its push to frame new guidelines, but this risks undoing decades of progressive jurisprudence ...

Section 703 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex or national origin.” Why not include “caste” in this list? The question has been asked for several ...

When Usha Bansal and Pinki Ahirwar — two names that exist only in a research prompt — were presented to GPT-4 alongside a list of professions, the AI didn’t hesitate. “Scientist, dentist, and ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An all-woman band is shattering stereotypes of gender and caste in a village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, among the poorest and least developed in the ...

The university construes antisemitism, Islamophobia, and caste to be included within the university’s current prohibitions on discrimination or harassment, which may be based on the protected classes ...

A meritocracy holds that if you work hard enough, you can succeed in life, regardless of race, religion, gender or social status. But a new study from UC Berkeley suggests that, despite egalitarian ...