UN experts call for sensitive and timely response to online gender-based abuse: “Online gender-based abuse and violence are undeniably a scourge, and governments and companies should be taking action against it”, David Kaye, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of freedom of expression, said in a news releases that coincides with worldwide commemoration of International…
Online access, confidence and more: How ‘internet saathis’ are digitally empowering women in rural India: For 39-year-old Asha Kamble, a resident of Supane village in Satara, stepping out of home on her own was unthinkable before the untimely death of her husband. Now, she travels to villages across the district with a smartphone and Tab,…
‘Hormonal’ female students need curfews, says India women’s minister in latest gaffe: NEW DELHI // Female students need curfews to protect them from their “hormonal outbursts”, India’s women’s minister has said, sparking ridicule on social media. Many Indian universities impose curfews on women while allowing male students to stay out at night, a policy critics…
MUMBAI — Mallika Sherawat, who has been very vocal about her support for women-related causes, has recently shot for a documentary on women’s issues in Mumbai. Titled “Free a Girl,” the film is being made by the volunteers of the ‘Free a Girl Movement’ — a Dutch project that highlights violence against Indian women. Read…
My mother told me a woman should choose her words wisely. My grandfather told me a woman should stick to her family,” says 29-year-old Lipika. “But I will tell my daughter that a woman has the right to dream. A woman is not destined for marriage, but she has the same prospects as men envision.”…
“We should all join hands to strive for egalitarian stability with man. But again, that war should demarcate a limit, it cannot be that after 25-30 years, we are to fight for ‘men empowerment’,” she said while attending an event organised by FICCI Ladies Organization(FLO) in Kolkata, recently. Both male and female should be involved collectively…
NEW DELHI: It is great that signs of women empowerment are many in India: Women joining the workforce in greater numbers is just one of the many signs of such empowerment. Increasing vigilance in hospitals over sex discrimination by pregnant women is another positive sign towards acceptance of women. However, there is also a downside…
CHENNAI: When Mythili Krishnan, a single mother, got a job opportunity in New York, she felt like she was on cloud nine. A data mining analyst with an MNC, all she wanted was to get out of Chennai with her child and leave behind the memories of her divorce. But reality hit hard at the…