The lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic has led to a rise in rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, stalking & voyeurism, according to online data from the National Commission for Women. With husbands at home, many women unlikely to complain. The woman calling on the phone from Ghaziabad was distraught. Her husband, she told counsellor […]
The silver lining in the Covid-19 shock would be this disruption of India’s business-as-usual labour market. “In the long-term, when companies realise how beneficial work from home is, the biggest beneficiaries would be women,” says Mahesh Vyas, managing director and CEO, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. An ongoing study by researchers at Northwestern University, the
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To honour the one who died, we could begin by reclaiming her identity and calling her by her name We made her the braveheart who accepted her martyrdom. A martyr is someone who embraces death, usually for a religious cause(AP) Indian law does not permit the naming of rape victims. Presumably, this is because the
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The December 16, 2012 gang-rape victim had a name. To honour her memory, we could start by reclaiming her identity. Indian law does not permit the naming of rape victims. Presumably, this is because the crime of rape is so terrible that, in society’s eyes, it stains not the rapist but his victim with shame;
If men and women are to work as equal partners, then we need new rules of engagement, ones that understand the centrality of mutual respect and consent Symbol for gender equality. Hand turns a dice and changes a unequal sign to a equal sign between symbols of men and women.(Getty Images/iStockphoto) Twenty years ago, Abhijit
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Women want politicians who will listen to them. The AAP’s work in schools and mohalla clinics, free bus rides for women and subsidies for electricity and water was a major draw. But if Kejriwal really wants to be a game-changer, he might want to end an old bias and recognise that there can be no
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Aam Aadmi Party’s work in schools and mohalla clinics, free bus rides for women and subsidies for electricity and water was a major draw. But if Kejriwal really wants to be a game-changer, he might want to end an old bias against including women in the cabinet. Following his party’s triumph in the Delhi elections,
Lt Col Seema Singh and Lt Col Sandhya Yadav tell me how 11 officers fought tirelessly from 2008 to make history for women in the army. Their behind-the-scenes account includes tales of chocolate, congeniality and chai. When 11 women Army officers first filed a petition in the Delhi High Court in December 2008 to challenge
In a landmark judgment, India’s Supreme Court has ruled that women army officers have a right to command posts. Dismissing arguments made by the central government against giving women command appointments in the army on grounds of their ‘physiological limitations’ and domestic responsibilities, the Supreme Court ruled that the exclusion of women is illegal. The
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In a slum in New Delhi, a group of young women and men are making their city safer Playing together teaches the team respect for each other. It breaks stereotypes. And it teaches the players that public spaces belong to all.(NAMITA BHANDARE) A quiet revolution brews in a narrow lane in one of Delhi’s most
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In a New Delhi slum in New Delhi, a group of young women and men play together and, in the process, make their city safer. A quiet revolution brews in a narrow lane in one of Delhi’s most unsafe localities. In Mangolpuri, a locality that registers the most number of police cases, a group of
Care work is highly gendered and a barrier to women’s participation in the paid economy. It’s time we changed that Suvarna Santosh Ghate, a 38-year-old housewife who has never held a job, is learning to drive a two-wheeler at a skilling centre in Mumbai where I met her some months ago. It’s an ambitious endeavour
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