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Abortion rights have been extended to unmarried women, but how will this affect women’s lives in reality?
Women who have had abortions in India fear the extension of abortion rights “will do nothing to change the rot in our society”.
They say class inequality and prejudice against women still (...)
The loss in income due to the pandemic trapped more women in the web of debt and bonded labour than before.
Kiran Devi, who lives on the outskirts of Dehradun, started working as a domestic help in October 2020. “I had to begin working since my husband wasn’t getting work and we had no savings (...)
Men were asked if they have right to 4 kinds of behaviour: Reprimand, refuse to give money, use force, or go have sex with another woman. 6% said all of the above, 72% said none.
New Delhi: With less than a third (32 per cent) of married women working and 44 per cent of women not even being (...)
Sara Abraham speaks to veteran Odia activist and author Ranjana Padhi
Ranjana Padhi has been active with various autonomous groups since the mid-eighties, including Saheli, Workers’ Solidarity, and Kashipur Solidarity. She has also organized around issues of state repression; democratic rights (...)
There is minimal difference in gender attitudes between Indian men and women, and also among adults of different ages, no matter how perceptibly regressive or progressive the views may be, a Pew Research Centre survey finds.
New Delhi: A new report has found that while Indians are keen to see (...)
The disparity between the hours they work and the honorariums they take home is the least of the problems faced by these frontline welfare workers.
New Delhi: Since January 31, policy makers in the Delhi government have had no way to avoid listening to the demands of the anganwadi (local (...)
Kamla Bhasin always called herself one of India’s ‘Midnight Generation’, a reference to those born at the time of India’s Independence. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s invocation of freedom at midnight later found its way into Salman Rushdie’s award-winning novel Midnight’s Children.
Told from (...)
The hope of a unifying UCC as envisaged by the Delhi high court is absolutely at odds with the Hindutva narrative of ‘love jihad’, which seeks to disempower women. We do need gender justice, and we need it now.
It is a strange phenomenon that the votaries of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) are often (...)
“The anxiety over women entering into marriages of choice has deep-seated patriarchal and casteist roots, wherein a woman is perceived as property, and handed over from her parents to her husband’s family, safely within the community and caste, with little say in the matter.”
New Delhi: A group (...)
The unpaid, intensive forms of work women have been undertaking actually ensure the survival of families and communities.
Women workers in India have been disproportionately hurt by the Covid-19-related lockdown and the ensuing economic downturn. While 36% of male workers lost employment (...)
Citing data from NFHS 4, the report says nearly 80% of men aged between 20 and 24 did not use a contraceptive with their last sexual partner.
New Delhi: Half of India’s population is less than 24 years of age while 65 per cent is below 35 years. To harness the opportunity of this young nation, (...)
Rape survivors deserve a fair trail. But Indian courts are still biased against them.
Judge Kshama M. Joshi, additional sessions judge, Mapusa, Goa acquitted Tarun Tejal, former editor-in-chief of Tehelka Magazine of rape of a junior woman employee on the ground that the prosecution was not (...)
Archana Prasad spoke with Capire about women’s work and lives in India and the struggles against corporate power and right-wing policies
Archana Prasad is a professor at the Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and also part of the All India (...)
Women end up in prison due to the traps of this patriarchal system that forces them to commit those crimes. They remain in prison because society and their families also considers them disposable
Q- Seema, tell us about your recently released book – Aurat ka Safar Jail se Jail Tak. Why the (...)
India’s #MeToo movement recently got a boost after a journalist won a criminal defamation case against an editor-turned-politician who she accused of sexual harassment.
In October 2018, the global #MeToo movement against sexual abuse and harassment perpetrated by powerful men in society (...)
The government’s current spending on specific interventions that address violence against women is not even 25% of the actual requirement.
Since its inception in 2013, the Nirbhaya Fund, set up to finance projects to improve the safety and security of women, has seen significant (...)
Throughout history, women have struggled for their rights, along with their struggles for people, land, nature, and the environment. Indian women do not come out suddenly. History has shown that once on the field, they will not retreat easily.
Recently, there has been an increase in the need (...)
An attempt to synthesise the results of discussions held between the 3rd and 8th July, 1978
Preface
This report was published in the Bulletin of the Communist Platform, No. 2, June–September 1978, and is an attempt to present the discussions of two socialist feminist workshops held in Bombay (...)
“We are struggling to make ends meet. In this condition, we cannot prioritize her studies and buy a new phone,” said the mother of a thirteen-year-old.
Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh: “It has been six months since I read any book. My school closed in March and I have not been able to study after (...)
Today, over 10,000 people from all walks of life, cutting across caste, religion, gender, occupation and community came together from almost every state in India and more than a dozen countries across the world such US, UK, Canada, Australia, UAE, Hong Kong, Japan, Nepal, Netherlands, Sweden, (...)
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