Thursday, March 28, 2024

Topic: women

Indian govts failed to properly enforce its sexual harassment law: Report

The Indian government’s failure to properly enforce its sexual harassment law leaves millions of women in the workplace exposed to abuse without remedy, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Wednesday.

Twitter accused of failing women over online abuse by Amnesty

“Twitter is still not doing enough to tackle the deluge of abuse women face on the platform. Our analysis shows that despite some progress, Twitter is not doing enough to protect women users, leading many women to silence or censor themselves on the platform,” said Rasha Abdul Rahim, Co-Director of Amnesty Tech.

Extracting identity from (Muslim) woman: Secular anxiety and spectre of communal

In contemporary history, a lot has been ruminated upon the Muslim woman. In the wake of a global effort to unveil her agency, from the USA’s Afghan invasion to BJP’s rhetoric around saving Muslim women, she has been a subject of immense scrutiny. Yet, despite the great number of academic work produced about her, somehow, the imagery of the ‘elusive’ Muslim women seems to escape translatability. Who is this seemingly ‘gendered’ Muslim, whose act of covering her body seems to have been understood as an act of veiling her self?

Depression: A note of dissent

Following the demise of the Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, there have been serious attempts in social media platforms to problematize depression. People from so wide a range as clinical psychologists to poets and activists are part of this endeavor. How precise are these observations? Do these mob discourses render justice to the individualistic experiences of depression?

Why women should stop saying #notallmen?

The mental trauma women and non-men undergo because of #notallmen is palpable and it's even more when fellow women does it. Generalizing by #allmen would make men to be guilty and that guilty is for good. It will help in breaking the socially constructed masculinity which time and again turns toxic.

Women health workers: Working relentlessly in hospitals and at home

Women globally make up over 70 per cent of workers in health, including those working in care institutions. They are on the front line of the fight against COVID-19 and these past few weeks have been the worst they have ever seen. As a result of the pandemic they are facing a double burden: longer shifts at work and additional care work at home.