In In Focus

Research to identify sexual harassment

By Breakthrough Team 5th April, 2016

Breakthrough has introduced a new research that makes two simple assumptions: 1. Sexual harassment is present online and offline. 2. Sexual harassm...

In In Focus

Safety among youth survey

By Breakthrough Team 1st April, 2016

Our research shows that sexual harassment in school and college campuses extends across both physical and online spaces. There is a definite need t...

In The Breakthrough Voice

Why neither gender benefits from being told to “Man Up”

By Breakthrough Team 21st March, 2016

Can’t ask her out? Man up. Scared of bungee jumping? Man up. Upset your boyfriend broke up with you? Man up. Why is it that anytime we have a less ...

In In Focus

10 wacky ways to fundraise

By Breakthrough Team 17th March, 2016

1. Give up coffee for a week, feel great about yourself. Donate the money saved. 2. Stop smoking save money. Donate the money saved. 3. Throw a BYO...

In In Focus

This Women’s Day is About Being Contrarian

By Breakthrough Team 8th March, 2016

Sometimes research findings are starkly revealing! Take this for example – if half of the country’s population is women (though fast dw...

In The Breakthrough Voice

Gender Discrimination in India: Causes and Solutions

By Breakthrough Team 7th March, 2016

Returning from my office in the metro one evening, I overheard a conversation between a woman and her daughter that left me shaken about the condit...

In The Breakthrough Voice

How we perpetuate everyday sexism at our workplace

By Breakthrough Team 7th March, 2016

I work in what would be considered a very open and casual environment. You can often find colleagues passionately discussing relationships, marriag...

In In Focus

Girls speak up about sexual harassment – #MakeitSafer

By Breakthrough Team 1st March, 2016

Walking from the Breakthrough office to LSR was a surprisingly long walk. This worked out in my favour, because I felt very unprepared to be asking...

In The Breakthrough Voice, हिंदी

सम्मान के नाम पर हत्या बनाम ऑनर किलिंग

By Breakthrough Team 29th February, 2016

उत्तर भारत के कई राज्यों में प्रेमी जोड़ों की हत्याओं की घटनाएं लगातार बढती जा रही हैं। इसका मतलब यह नहीं है कि पहले ऑनर किलिंग नहीं होती थी। ऑनर क...

In The Breakthrough Voice, हिंदी

सार्वजनिक जगहों में यौन शोषण

By Breakthrough Team 12th February, 2016

आज हमारा समाज उन्नति कर रहा है पर आज भी समाज में पिछडापन है तथा महिलाओं को कमजोर समझा जाता है और उनको हर कदम पर नीचा दिखाने की कोशिश की जाती हैं।दि...