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…
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…
How Gender Stereotyping Is Holding Back Women Empowerment
Heard, witnessed and experienced gender inequality all my life. Dark skinned, short stature, overweight, all the body-shaming attributes amplify when you are a woman. Intelligence, leadership, courage, all the attributes of success and power are ridiculed when they reside in a woman’s body. Nature makes a baby by combining the genes of both parents, mother…
5 Gender Equality Campaigns That Made Huge Impacts
Gender equality is essential to create a safer, more prosperous, and sustainable world. Unfortunately, women are still not safe in private or public spaces, they do not have equal legal or social status in many countries. Over the past decade, the fourth wave of feminists and women’s rights activists have been relentlessly speaking up about sexual…
