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    Socio-Cultural Norms,  Systemic Gendered Discrimination

    Importance of Introducing Gender Education In Early Childhood

    Swagata Sen / June 7, 2020

    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 of the countries. All societies have gradually accepted that women’s equality and empowerment plays a pivotal role in the overall development of…

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  • COVID 19 and women
    Around The World,  Reproductive Rights and Justice,  Systemic Gendered Discrimination,  Violence Against Women and Girls

    COVID 19 pandemic : Unseen Impacts on Women

    Swagata Sen / April 10, 2020

    As the COVID 19 pandemic continues to disrupt lives around the world, most of the countries have enforced some form of lockdown or shelter-in-place to prevent the infection outbreak. Experts have predicted that COVID 19 pandemic would impact every individual in some ways or other. We’ve already witnessed its catastrophic impact on public health and the…

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  • Why Women in India stay Away From The Workforce?
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    Why Many Women in India stay Away From The Workforce?

    Swagata Sen / February 20, 2020

    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…

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  • why women live with abusive partners
    Socio-Cultural Norms,  Systemic Gendered Discrimination,  Violence Against Women and Girls

    Why Can’t Women Escape Abusive Relationships?

    Swagata Sen / February 9, 2020

    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.…

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  • objectification of Women in media
    Mental Health,  Socio-Cultural Norms,  Systemic Gendered Discrimination

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

    Swagata Sen / June 30, 2019

    Objectification of Women by the Mass 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…

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  • Patrilocality and gender discrimination
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    Patrilocality: Roots of Gender Discrimination in Many Countries

    Swagata Sen / May 10, 2019

     What is Patrilocality? In patrilocal societies, women move to their husband’s house and co-reside with their husband’s family after marriage. Patrilocality is associated with discrimination in personal autonomy, decision making, education, health, and division of labour between a woman and her husband. This post aims to explain the correlation between patrilocality and gender discrimination. With marriage,…

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  • Gender Discrimination in consumption of Food
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    Gender Discrimination in Access and Consumption of Food Across Cultures

    Swagata Sen / 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, norms and gender discrimination in the consumption and access to food in many countries. Poverty as well as discriminatory social and religious customs are…

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    Male guardianship in Saudi Arabia

    Swagata Sen / 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 as second-class citizens in Saudi Arabia. All females, girls, and women are forbidden from traveling, conducting official business, or undergoing certain medical…

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    Systemic Gender Discrimination Across the World

    Swagata Sen / March 24, 2019

    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 rights and laws for men and women. Women had to fight for equal rights and access in every aspect of life – starting…

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

    Swagata Sen / February 18, 2019

    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…

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