Now that we are making our child sexual offences law gender neutral, isn’t it time we started talking about adult male rape survivors? Men themselves are reluctant to report being raped for fear of being judged by a society with iron-clad notions about masculinity. “Aren’t you a man? Why didn’t you hit back? Were you […]
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Now that we are making our child sexual offences law gender neutral, isn’t it time we started talking about adult male rape survivors? Sohaila Abdulali is telling me about the time many years ago when a man called up a Rape Crisis Centre in the US. He had been raped by a teacher some years
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In Scroll.in, I argue that the judgment on the just-concluded arguments for and against section 377, the section that criminalises sex ‘against the order of nature’, must go beyond mere decriminalisation. It must ensure freedom, choice and rights for every citizen — more so at a time when the plurality of India is sought to be
In Foreign Policy: A new act gives more maternity leave — and reinforces the same old patriarchal values. American progressives often bemoan the country’s lack of maternity leave, but in India, the problem may be too much time off, not too little. As many as 12 million Indian women could lose their jobs next year
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Extending paid maternity leave from three to six months reinforces the same old patriarchal ideas about women’s ‘work’. American progressives often bemoan the country’s lack of maternity leave, but in India, the problem may be too much time off, not too little. As many as 12 million Indian women could lose their jobs next year
Frankly, I find this business of ranking ‘worst’ countries to be tedious. To be bad is bad enough; better or worse is an academic argument Women protest against rape in New Delhi. A Thomson Reuters yearly survey called India as the most dangerous place for women, which the government rejected saying it’s an opinion poll.(HT)
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In Hindustan Times: Frankly, I find this business of ranking ‘worst’ countries to be tedious. To be bad is bad enough; better or worse is an academic argument. That report, the one that damns India as the worst country in the world for women, came out in a week when one of the country’s most
Worst, second worst or 5th worst doesn’t matter. India is bad for women. Read More »