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  • objectification of Women in media
    Around The World,  Discover Your True self

    Objectification and Exploitation of Girls and Women by the Mass Media and the Social Media

    June 30, 2019

      Objectification of Women by the Mass Media From the early nineteenth century, in television, films, printed and television commercials, and music videos, sexual objectification and exploitation of women became an increasingly growing trend. Along with objectification, different industries also started using a false and unreal image of women’s physical appearance, body image, and beauty. Today, hypersexualized and unrealistically perfect female forms are associated with products, services and programs across television and computer screens, billboards, glossy pages of magazines, video games and social media. Girls and women are dehumanized and portrayed as a commodity in these advertisements, music videos, and films – women’s bodies are used to sell everything from…

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    Dowry-The Leading Cause of Female Infanticides and Female Foeticides in Indian Subcontinent

    October 21, 2018
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    From A Victim of War Crimes to Nobel Peace Prize

    January 4, 2019
    Female Genital Mutilation, Gender based discrimination, gender based violence, gender equality

    Female Genital Mutilation: Facts, Figures and Resources

    January 11, 2019
  • Patrilocality
    Around The World

    Patrilocality: Roots of Gender Discrimination in Many Countries

    May 10, 2019

      In Patrilocal societies, women move to their husbands’ house and co-reside with husbands’ parents after marriage. Gender gaps in personal autonomy, education, health, and division of labor are more prominent in families and societies which are strictly Patrilocal.   With marriage, almost all the girls who live with her husband’s parents and extended family, lose a great deal of their freedom, decision making power and autonomy. A girl is expected to follow the rules and norms, sometimes strict and irrelevant, set by her husband’s parents. Often, the choice of a girl’s lifestyle, starting from food habit to dressing sense and even the way she behaves or talks are questioned,…

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    Dowry Killings: Why Does It Happen and How Can We Prevent It?

    January 19, 2019

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    April 6, 2019
    Food and gender discrimination

    Gender Discrimination in Access and Consumption of Food Across Cultures

    April 17, 2019
  • Food and gender discrimination
    Around The World

    Gender Discrimination in Access and Consumption of Food Across Cultures

    April 17, 2019

      Equal access to food and nutrition is one of the core human rights. Yet, in several cultures across the world, women do not have equal access to food. There are strange taboos, discrimination and restrictions imposed only on women about the quality and quantity of food consumed by them.   In most of the countries in Africa and Asia, women usually eat after feeding the male and children, as a tradition. In families where there is the scarcity of food, women usually eat only leftover food or a disproportionately lower quantity of food every day. In many countries, especially in rural areas, women are not supposed to eat in…

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    Domestic Violence Against Women Across The World-Where Are We?

    February 18, 2019
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    Systemic Gender Discrimination Across the World

    March 24, 2019
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    In Search of a Safer Place for Women

    February 26, 2019
  • Around The World

    Male guardianship in Saudi Arabia

    April 6, 2019

        What is the male guardianship rule?   Women in Saudi Arabia, irrespective of their age, education or employment status,  must have a male guardian, typically a father, brother, husband or uncle (mahram). Women are treated like second class citizens in Saudi Arabia. All females, girls, and women are forbidden from traveling, conducting official business, or undergoing certain medical procedures without permission from their male guardians. Women are not allowed to leave the house without a male accompany. The ownership of a woman is passed from one man to another, typically from the father or the brother to the husband. Women are treated as possessions of their male guardians.…

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    How Gender Stereotyping Is Holding Back Women Empowerment

    November 18, 2018
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    How Formal Education Set Them Apart

    January 3, 2019
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    MeToo: A Movement Truly Helped Women to Overcome Victim Shaming

    January 15, 2019
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    Around The World

    Systemic Gender Discrimination Across the World

    March 24, 2019

      Women in many parts of the world still have a very little or no choices on their own lives. Historically, no country in the world had similar rights for men and women in all the areas. Women had to fight for equal rights and privileges in every aspect  – starting from voting rights to rights to inherit their father’s property, or even to drive cars! Over the last 50 years, many reforms have improved women’s legal rights. But, according to a World Bank Report, even now in over 100 countries, women are restricted from doing certain work solely because of gender discrimination.  Out of 173 countries, only 18 are…

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    From A Victim of War Crimes to Nobel Peace Prize

    January 4, 2019
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    Child Marriage: Getting Rid of the Burden-the sooner the better

    January 3, 2019
    Dowry, Dowry death, dowry murder, stop dowry, prevent dowry

    Dowry Killings: Why Does It Happen and How Can We Prevent It?

    January 19, 2019
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    Around The World,  Share Your Story

    In Search of a Safer Place for Women

    February 26, 2019

    Last June, soon after coming to the United States, I joined a non-profit Organization, Rape Trauma Services, for a training to help and support the survivors of sexual assaults. This training and the subsequent experience of working as a sexual assault advocate and counselor changed my whole perspective of the status of women in western societies.

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    How Gender Stereotyping Is Holding Back Women Empowerment

    November 18, 2018
    Food and gender discrimination

    Gender Discrimination in Access and Consumption of Food Across Cultures

    April 17, 2019
  • Domestic violence against women
    Around The World

    Domestic Violence Against Women Across The World-Where Are We?

    February 18, 2019

        Do you know that wife-beating was legal and a very common practice in almost all countries prior to the mid-1800s? Most legal systems viewed wife-beating as a valid exercise of a husband’s authority over his wife?   Women and children were seen as ‘belonging’ to a man, therefore controlling of his wife and children in the form of physical violence or punishment by a man were acceptable in religious and civil laws of all societies.   Legal Documents from the Medieval Age from different regions support wife-beating was legally allowed to ‘control, correct, support and instruct’ the wife by her husband. During the 1800s, wife beating was extremely…

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    Female Genital Mutilation, Gender based discrimination, gender based violence, gender equality

    Female Genital Mutilation: Facts, Figures and Resources

    January 11, 2019
    Dowry, Dowry death, dowry murder, stop dowry, prevent dowry

    Dowry Killings: Why Does It Happen and How Can We Prevent It?

    January 19, 2019
    Food and gender discrimination

    Gender Discrimination in Access and Consumption of Food Across Cultures

    April 17, 2019
  • Menstruation Exile in Nepal
    Around The World

    Menstruation Exile in Nepal: Another Horrific Social Evil Revisited

    February 11, 2019

      In January 2019, a woman in Nepal died in the ‘menstruation hut’ with her 2 kids. They died of possible suffocation or carbon monoxide poisoning from the fire they lit to warm the hut in the freezing cold!   Women in Nepal are forced to live in animal sheds or secluded huts in inhuman conditions, during menstruation.   Chhaupadi or menstruation exile is a century old practice in Nepal, where women are banned from entering their own house, meeting any people, eating good or nutritious food and participating any social and religious events.   This was not the first death of a woman in her menstruation exile in Nepal; there…

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    Domestic Violence Against Women Across The World-Where Are We?

    February 18, 2019
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    The First Arab Woman to Win a Nobel Prize

    September 27, 2018
    women's education, women empowerment, gender equality, SDG 5,

    How Formal Education Set Them Apart

    January 3, 2019
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    Share Your Story

    Breaking the Tradition of Enduring Pain

    February 7, 2019

       It is strange to see how we face testing time in life due to gender bias. It is there right in front of us, right from our workplace to our personal space. The major influencing factor being hundred percent tolerance – a quality the women have always been admired for. I have seen the previous generation of women, who followed all the traditions and rituals, trying to please others. They did gain a peaceful life but at the cost of their own dreams.   So what is the punch line for our generation? Women have to be 100% tolerant and always have to be at the receiving end. They…

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    February 26, 2019
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    January 3, 2019
    Discover your true self, self empowerment, women empowerment, gender equality

    My Journey Of Self-empowerment And A Journal of Gratitude!

    October 30, 2018
  • how to get a job, women empowerment
    Discover Your True self

    How to Get a Job When You Have Never Worked Before

    February 4, 2019

      Many women, despite having a good education and advanced degree, are not economically independent. Women, in many societies never get a chance to have a career for various reasons. Some families do not allow a daughter or a daughter-in-law to go out and work. Sometimes, women themselves do not take their professional life and the value of economic independence seriously when they are younger and agree to get married and stay at home until they realize the importance of being self-independent. There are of course women who take a career break for raising their kids or to stay at home when the kids are younger. Sometimes, getting back to…

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    January 3, 2019
    Healing, adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse

    Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuses: Resources and Guidelines on Healing

    January 26, 2019
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