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Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. ‘Honour’ killings, where the families of daughters who exercise agency in their choice of marriage partners and so incur their family’s wrath for bringing disgrace, are India’s enduring shame (AFP) THE BIG STORY She was making […]

Hiring women drivers and conductors will instill confidence and enable more women to use public transport DTC hired its first woman driver, V Saritha, in April 2015 with announcements to hire more. Six years later, Saritha remains its sole woman driver (Hindustan Times)” Omkari’s family was scandalized when she told them she wanted to learn

Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. Behind the various laws that seek to regulate women’s bodies lies the question of choice. How freely do women exercise agency when it comes to marriage, when to have a baby, or how many babies to

Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. We’ve come a long way from the days when parties promised free pressure cookers, mixer-grinders and gold for mangalsutras (Virendra Singh Gosain/HT PHOTO) THE BIG STORY: Everybody loves the woman voter Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement of

Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. Under Indian law, sexual intercourse with a minor girl (defined as 16 years and younger) is defined as rape (PTI) THE BIG STORY: Love, sex, and agency On the face of it, it’s an unusual order.

Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. Victims of acid attacks are almost always young women from socio-economic marginalised communities who have turned down men (Sanjeev Verma/HT) THE BIG STORY It’s a familiar tale. Man says he loves woman. She turns him down.

India’s laws and the highest court have provided the direction. The challenge is to get its institutions to fall in line with the law The bullying of transgender kids is routine despite the Supreme Court’s 2014 NALSA judgment that recognises the “third gender” as equal citizens (Shutterstock) By the time she was four or five,

Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. As schools tentatively return to physical classes, the big questions are: How much learning has been lost? (HT PHOTO) THE BIG STORY Back to school Do girls face a disproportionate impact, given the existing gender gaps?

It’s time we celebrate love as the purest emotion between two individuals. It’s time we celebrate our Constitution for promising equality for all At its core lies a clash between constitutional guarantees and societal morality (Amal KS/HT PHOTO) In a week when the Delhi High Court (HC) is hearing a clutch of petitions seeking legal

Hello and welcome to Mind the Gap, a newsletter that adds perspective to the gender developments of the week. Only 268 of 2,839 Congress candidates — just 9.4% — who have contested a state election since 2017 were women (ANI) THE BIG STORY Priyanka’s great gamble Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s promise to field

Justice in one case does not signal the end of crimes against Dalit women. But it does signal one tiny step forward in a longer march against caste hierarchy. Dalit women face sexual abuse daily, said Manjula Pradeep, convenor, National Council of Women Leaders. When rape survivors try to file police complaints, they are accused

From regressive comments on modern women to an obvious — and widening — gulf between girls and boys, the gender divide at home and at work appears to be deepening in India and the world India is home to the world’s largest number of single women, but this is not a homogeneous group (Getty Images/iStockphoto)