Tag: Gender Issues
From Bans to Monitoring, Why Are Schools Policing Teenagers’ Social Media...
From Twitter to Tik Tok, social media has become an integral platform for students’ lives, be it for social, political, or educational reasons. As...
Imagining a Two-Child Nation: Regressive Policy or Prudent Planning?
Featured Image: A still of an awareness campaign from Panchayat, an Indian comedy-drama web-series set in rural Uttar Pradesh. Used for representative purposes only.
Understanding...
How the Indian Media Sympathises with Rapists
Authored by Aarathi Ganesan
There is more to the news than meets the eye, and what appears to be authoritative, and ‘objective’ coverage is often...
Changing India’s Sports Narrative: Introducing S4D
Authored by Suheil Farrell Tandon and Antony CJ
Ever since Pratyush*—an under-confident 14-year-old boy residing in the slum settlements of Bhubaneswar—had joined a mixed-gender Sports...
A Hurdle in the Shadows: Providing Education to the Children of...
Written by Shagun Bhargava
As the per the last official count held in 2007, India was home to over 3 million sex workers, who continue...
Criminal Defamation Amidst #MeToo: a Necessary Evil or an Anti-Democratic Tool?
Understanding the Context
For the past century, freedom of speech has been popularly identified as a hallmark of any strong liberal democracy. In a political...
YUWA: Empowering Jharkhand’s Girls, One Bootlace at a Time
Co-authored by Ishaan Banerji and P. Charith Reddy
“The first thing I noticed in the village is that while boys play, girls work” - Franz...
The Pink and Blue Divide: Rethinking Children’s Textbooks in a Post...
Co-authored by Ayushi Ghosh and Kartik Sundar
The striking down of a controversial 158-year old provision of Section 377 to decriminalize non-procreative relationships was a...
Bridging Sport’s Gender Wage Gaps: “Work” or “Worth”?
Understanding the Context
Sports were a pretty big deal in Ancient Greece, especially in the city of Olympia. Some 50,000 spectators would pour into the...
The 2019 National Education Policy Must Enable Girls’ Right to Education
Written by Evita Rodrigues
Research by Tanvi Mehta
The potential of education to empower often goes unrecognized. It is a tool capable of empowering women to...
