Importance of Introducing Gender Education In Early Childhood
Thanks to the increasing number of feminist movements and activism, globally women’s rights and equality have started gaining momentum over the last three decades. Women’s empowerment, now, is an important developmental agenda in most countries. All societies have gradually accepted that women’s equality and empowerment play a pivotal role in the overall development of any country.…
Why Many Women in India stay Away From The Workforce?
According to the Global Gender Gap report 2020 by the World Economic Forum, India has one of the widest gender gaps in women’s economic participation and opportunities. India ranks 145th out of 153 countries in the economic participation index. Only around 25% of women, compared with 82% of men in India, work. Apparently, Indian women choose…
Why Can’t Women Escape Abusive Relationships?
Violence against women by their partners is prevalent in all countries, across different socio-economic classes. 1 in 3 women globally faces domestic violence. 1 in 5 women worldwide dies because of intimate partner violence. These are reported data – and we know that there is a huge number of women who can not even report domestic violence.…
Objectification and Exploitation of Girls and Women by the Mass Media and Social Media
Objectification of Women by Media Women and their bodies have always been commodities and sources of pleasure and exploitation for patriarchal cultures. From the twentieth century, in television, films, commercials, and music videos, sexualization and objectification of women became an increasingly growing trend. Mainstream media has always used a false and unreal image of women’s physical…
Patrilocality is The Root of Gender Discrimination
What is Patrilocality? In patrilocal societies, women move to their husband’s house and co-reside with their husband’s families after marriage. Patrilocality is associated with discrimination in personal autonomy, decision-making, education, health, and division of labor between a woman and her husband. This post aims to explain the correlation between patrilocality and gender discrimination and how patrilocality…
Gender Discrimination in Access and Consumption of Food Across Cultures
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, norms and gender discrimination in the consumption and access to food in many countries. Poverty as well as discriminatory social and religious customs are…
Male guardianship in Saudi Arabia
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 as second-class citizens in Saudi Arabia. All females, girls, and women are forbidden from traveling, conducting official business, or undergoing certain medical…
Systemic Gender Discrimination Across the World
Women in many parts of the world still have very little or no choices on their own lives and are victims of systemic gender discrimination. Historically, no country in the world had similar legal rights and laws for men and women. Women had to fight for equal rights and access in every aspect of life –…
Domestic Violence Against Women Across The World-Where Are We?
According to The UN, up to 70 per cent of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime. It is a grave reality that women are not safe even at home in most of the places in this world. Domestic violence against women doesn’t know the boundary of socio-economic or…
Breaking the Tradition of Enduring Pain
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 per cent tolerance – a quality the women have always been admired for. I have seen the previous…
