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Promoting Gender Equality and Women Empowerment

  • Marriage Is My Only Identity
    Around The World,  Share Your Story

    At 29, Marriage Is Made My Only Identity

    Jahanvi / December 19, 2020

    “Beta, my heart is aching. I am getting old. I can’t bear all this pain for long. What will happen to you after I am gone?”, says my mother over the phone. “Just marry and I will be okay,” she adds. Before I could even use an excuse to hang up, my father goes on to…

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  • breast ironing
    Around The World

    Understanding The Harmful Tradition of Breast Ironing

    Swagata Sen / August 13, 2020

    What is Breast Ironing? Breast Ironing is a harmful cultural practice that continues to perpetuate silently in different parts of the world for centuries. Once a girl’s breast starts growing during puberty, usually, the mother carries out the practice. Where is this custom prevalent? This is primarily practiced in West and Central Africa- Nigeria, Togo, Republic…

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  • Patrilocality
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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 husbands’ house and co-reside with husbands’ parents after marriage. Patrilocality is associated with gender gaps in personal autonomy, decision making, education, health, and division of labor. With marriage, almost all the girls who live with her husband’s parents and extended family, lose a great deal of…

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

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  • Around The World

    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 like second class citizens in Saudi Arabia. All females, girls, and women are forbidden from traveling, conducting official business,…

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