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Underpaid and over-burdened with endless surveys, reports and tasks, Sunita Rani and other ASHA workers of Haryana’s Sonipat district struggle to attend to the reproductive health needs of rural families
On a bright and sunny day, 39-year-old Sunita Rani is speaking to a group of around 30 (...)
It is the women who stay behind in the villages who sustain migration by supporting their men. We must not ignore them.
On March 24, prime minister Narendra Modi announced a complete lockdown of the country for 21 days to contain the spread of novel coronavirus. All transport operations were (...)
There is an urgent need for the Dalit women labourers of rural Punjab to organise themselves into unions and groups to take forward their battle for human existence. This is the view of intellectuals and activists on the ground who have been working with this segment of people, aired at a (...)
As PM Modi plans to hand over his social media accounts to ’inspiring women’, one may remind him that these women are fighting for their right to exist.
The home and the world are usually portrayed as binaries. Women, in such projections, are homemakers. Men inhabit the world outside.
Recent (...)
On a one-kilometre strip of road in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh neighbourhood, hundreds of people, predominantly Muslim women are holding a dharna — a non-violent, sit-in protest — to stop the implementation of the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizenship (NRC) and (...)
Movements pioneered by early feminists should be studied with new theoretical inputs to deal with the challenges to the abolition of gender exploitation.
This is the text of Gail Omvedt’s inaugural lecture on Feminist Discourse, organised by the Department of Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune (...)
Recommendations of the Justice Verma Commission, which could go a long way in making spaces safer for women, are yet to be implemented, they said.
New Delhi: It has been seven years since the gruesome December 16 gang rape and murder in Delhi, which stimulated spontaneous protests across the (...)
No group stands to lose as much as women do if the CAA-NRC are implemented. The Indian woman knows that, and knowledge guides her in the protests.
In this winter of discontent, in every procession, in every demonstration, in every protest – from JNU to Jamia or Aligarh to Jadavpur – the front (...)
The women of Jamalpur are ensuring their protest stays inclusive.
AMU Protests
The residential quarters of Aligarh Muslim University are segregated by the boundary wall of the campus from a large mixed mohalla of mostly pasmanda Muslims—washer-men, barbers, tailors, gardeners, etc—and some (...)
UNNAO, India (Reuters) - A 23-year-old rape victim set on fire by a gang of men, which included her alleged rapists, has died in a New Delhi hospital, prompting protests from opposition leaders who blamed the ruling party for failing to check incidents of violence against women.
The woman was (...)
What keeps most women off the uphill battle are mounting legal expenses through this time.
Geeta has been separated from her husband for the past 18-19 years. Life has been much the same for her since her short-lived marriage.
Though legally divorced and entitled to alimony payments from her (...)
An excerpt from Anindita Majumdar’s book ‘Surrogacy’.
Surrogacy in India has rapidly become part of the landscape of international reproductive tourism. Reproductive or procreative tourism is part of the growing travel circuits of infertile couples – from the developed and developing world to (...)
Data show that a majority of Indian enterprises are run by small proprietors and women are only a negligible portion of this group. Most women are employed in family or other small businesses - run by men.
According to the Sixth Economic Census (2013) unit level data, the total number of enterprises engaged in different agricultural and non-agricultural activities in India – excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence and compulsory social security – was 58.5 million. Majority of these enterprises – over three quarters – were involved in different (...)
A recent film developed by the ISST on the situation of informal women workers of Delhi highlights numerous challenges.
In India, 94% of women are employed in the unorganised sector, involved in work which lacks dignity of labour, social security, decent and timely wages and in some cases, (...)
In conversation with Githa Hariharan about her latest book ’I Have Become The Tide’.
A cattle-skinner’s son runs away from his father’s funeral. Fate brings Chikka to Anandagrama, a village where he begins a new life as a washerman and grows up among people who envision a casteless society where (...)
For women care workers, obtaining even the minimum services boosts their efforts to rally around tougher issues like minimum wages or laws that regulate their employment.
Millions of women in India are engaged in the care economy, as both paid and unpaid workers. Most are part of the informal (...)
The manifestos of parties only pay lip service to the litany of abuses that women face. These issues need to be part of mainstream political discourse.
The general elections of 2019 are upon us. Political parties, citizen groups and the common public are going to participate in a grand (...)
In an excerpt from the book ’Indian Democracy Origins, Trajectories, Contestations’, two feminist sociologists – Raka Ray and Srila Roy – discuss the trajectory of feminist politics in India over the last several decades.
An excerpt from Indian Democracy Origins, Trajectories, Contestations edited (...)
Mid-day meal cooks in Bihar – mostly women from Dalit and Adivasi communities – are subject to the worst kind of institutional gender discrimination.
Patna/Jehanabad/Bhojpur (Bihar): On February 11, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi served the third billionth Akshay Patra mid-day meal in (...)
Early marriage is not responsible for the low female labour force participation. Blame the male backlash effect for it.
India has one of the lowest female labour force participation rates in the world. In 2017, only 27% of adult Indian women had a job or were actively looking for one. The (...)
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