The Intersections Between Gender and Disability: Listening to Every Woman.
International Women’s Day is not just a day to celebrate the progress and improvement of women’s rights across the globe, but also an opportunity to look at the areas we must focus on. On this International Women’s Day, it must be remembered that every woman has a different experience within society. Adopting an intersectional and inclusive…
Girls’ Education: Challenges and Recommendations
Education is one of the most important stages of every child’s life, allowing the opportunity for children to grow socially as well as academically. Not only is education important for the economic development of a country, but it also has a huge impact on the economic empowerment of an individual. However, most importantly, education is one…
Practical and Moral Side of Women’s Digital Rights to Privacy
A study published by the Data & Society Research Institute (New York, United States) in 2016 found that 1 in 25 Americans are either threatened with or victims of nonconsensual image sharing, or “revenge porn,” and that women under 30, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community are much more likely than men to…
Silencing of Women Around the Globe
The ever-growing momentum behind feminist movements has encouraged women to speak up and demand equal rights. This progress should not go unrecognized, as women are beginning to receive more opportunities, respect, protection, and empowerment. However, one ongoing oppressive tendency includes the silencing of women. I believe that the endless silencing of women can be explained…
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 access and consumption of food in many countries. Poverty as well as discriminatory social and religious customs are the…
