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August 31, 2010By Aparna Singh
In India, interesting women in science and technology per se is not such a difficult problem. A lot of women study both the basic and applied sciences, and at entry level, the number of women in these professions is not poor, even it is not equal. Yet, as we move up the organizational charts, fewer women are in the picture, until, when one comes to the highest levels such as CEOs and board members, few women are left. A big part of the reason is of course that a large number of women drop out of the corporate world in their late 20s and early 30s – to have children and raise a family. Tags: career growth for women, empowering women, Gender, housework, Indian society and women, women in technology | Category: Work Life |
August 26, 2010By Guest Contributor By Divya Rajan
Your scarf spoke nine tongues. ******* “You were born to silence”, sang whispers ******* I felt the cold of asbestos. *** Divya Rajan’s work has been published in Poetic Chicago anthology, Apparatus, Read This, Gloom Cupboard, Danse Macabre, The Times of India, Femina, Asian Cha, and many others. She has been a recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination in addition to other writing awards, and currently lives in Chicago where she co- edits poetry at The Furnace Review. She has recently finished work on her first chapbook, Chanting Silhouettes. The above poem is an ekphrastic work inspired by artist Judithe Hernandez’s work titled, The Border, exhibited at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. More details about the Juarez- Chihuahua crisis can be viewed at The Juarez Project. Tags: divya rajan, juarez chihuahua, poem | Category: Art, Identity and Destination, Poetry, Society, Women's Lives |
August 13, 2010By Guest Contributor
By Sreeparna Chattopadhyay
Tags: Roman Polanski | Category: Art, Exploitation, Justice, Law, Media, Our Bodies, Popular Culture, Rape |
August 04, 2010By Guest Contributor By Sumana Roy
He always snips off ends. My tranquil ends, He always snips off ends. Antennae He always snips off ends. Kesh is a congested He always snips off ends. Hair is shame’s prosody. *** Sumana Roy’s first novel, Love in the Chicken’s Neck, was long listed for the Man Asian Literary July 26, 2010By Anindita Sengupta IT for Change. Bangalore, India. Closing date: July 20, 2010. IT for Change is looking for young feminist thinker-activists to join our research and advocacy team. We are in the process of building our strategic directions for the next 3 years in the area of gender, development and technology, and would like to expand our team to include young feminist researchers who have the skill to combine research, project management and advocacy. The field of gender and information society studies is evolving rapidly and impacting the development arena and women’s rights and citizenship in various ways. The position offers an opportunity to be associated with an emerging field that has much potential for leadership and innovative work. The role involves working with the Director from concept design to coordination and execution of research projects and advocacy activities. Areas of work include e-governance and women’s citizenship; new media and local transformation; women’s movements and techno-social architectures; knowledge and technology politics; public health and new technologies. The candidate must be able to think strategically, work independently and author outputs of very high quality. The candidate will be expected to take on programmatic responsibilities in the organisation, prepare policy briefs and communication material, undertake dissemination of research findings for influencing change, organise national and international meetings and workshops, and continuously endeavour to broaden the organisation’s network of allies. * We are looking for researcher-activists with a drive for institution-building, familiar with the challenges and opportunities that NGOs in the South that straddle multiple spaces of influence from global to local offer. Depending on the background, the candidate will be considered for the positions either of research assistant or research associate. Please send your complete CV along with a writing sample (preferably published work) to jobs@ITforChange.net. The last date for receiving completed applications is 20th July 2010. Decisions about suitability for the position and remuneration depend on appropriate experience and competencies. Website: http://www.itforchange.net/join-us.html July 21, 2010By Oishik Sircar
July 07, 2010By Dilnavaz Bamboat
WERE I 17 AND A POT OF MUSH, “those three words” would mean something entirely different. But as an almost-32- year-old (ooh, how I love announcing an upcoming birthday It has been the title and subject matter of a movie. Blogadda recently declared it the topic of their weekly contest. Freud pondered the question before reportedly labeling women “the dark continent”. And I have a sneaking suspicion it was part of undergraduate coursework in Aristotelian times. What Women Want 101: Enlightening souls, one confused sucker at a time. My question is: Why? July 01, 2010By Sharanya Manivannan
Now, for the few of you who may insist that you know nothing about Eat Pray Love, here it is in a nutshell: a financially successful but not particularly famous author finds herself getting divorced, going into depression, and then taking a year to travel in order to reinvigorate her life. In Italy, she indulges – eating her way through the first third of the year. In India, she joins an ashram (the book is extremely spiritual, and this section is so heartrendingly painful that you wonder why anyone would call this book fluffy… until you get to the next). And finally, in Indonesia, tying up the circle in perfectly fairytale style, she finds love. All of this is a true story, told in a fashion that is alternately charming, mildly annoying, and deeply honest. Tags: Books, chick-lit, choices, Committed, divorce, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Institutions, Law, literature, Marriage, Relationships, women and literature | Category: Books, Love, Marriage, Popular Culture, Relationships, Women's Lives |
June 22, 2010By Aparna Singh
The first one is a mushy love story, the second an MMS sex scandal and the third, about the media’s voracious appetite for ’stings’. It is the second and third stories that really hold your attention; the first one is slow to heat up and I almost forwarded a little of the first 10-15 minutes. Yet, my mind keeps going back to it. (This post isn’t a movie review though.) June 14, 2010By Anindita Sengupta Missing Half the Story Toilets, trees and gender? Can there be a connection? Is there a gender angle to a business story? Is gender in politics only about how many women get elected to parliament? Is osteoporosis a women’s disease? Why do more women die in natural disasters? These are not the questions journalists usually ask when they set out to do their jobs as reporters, sub-editors, photographers of editors. Yet, by not asking, are they missing out on something, perhaps half the story? This is the question this book, edited and written by journalists, for journalists and the lay public interested in media, raises. Through examples from the media, and from their own experience, the contributors explain the concept of gender-sensitive journalism and look at a series of subjects that journalists have to cover – sexual assault, environment, development, business, politics, health, disasters, conflict – and set out a simple way of integrating a gendered lens into day-to-day journalism. Written in a non-academic, accessible style, this book is possibly the first of its kind in India – one that attempts to inject a gender perspective into journalism. Kalpana Sharma is an independent journalist, columnist and media consultant based in Mumbai. She writes regularly for several newspapers and websites on a range of issues including urban development, gender, contemporary politics and the media. She was, until 2007, Deputy Editor and Chief of Bureau, The Hindu in Mumbai. She has also written and edited several books and is a founder-member of the Network of Women and Media, India. Laxmi Murthy, Rajashri Dasgupta, Sameera Khan and Ammu Joseph also collaborated on the book. ___ Have you written a book that would be of interest to feminists? Send me details to see it here. Tags: Ammu Joseph, Kalpana Sharma, Missing Half the Story | Category: Books, Media, Women's Lives, Work Life |
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ROMAN POLANSKI is a free man. The Swiss government refused to extradite him to the US. Does a crime committed by an Oscar winning director cease to be a crime? Should Roman Polanski be treated any differently because he is the director of The Pianist? Does the fact that he raped and sodomized a thirteen-year-old girl more than thirty-three years ago diminish the magnitude of the crime or its impact on the victim? The girl, little more than a child at the time met Polanski during a Vogue photo shoot in Los Angeles, California. He drugged as well as plied her with alcohol before he assaulted her in a hot tub in 1977. The charges against him were very serious including assault on a child under the age of 14 with under Californian law at that time, statutory rape. According to some newspaper sources his victim Samantha Gailey’s lawyer made a plea bargain with him so that she could preserve the anonymity of her client. He pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor (a much lesser charge than his original offences) and spent a mere forty-two days in prison before he fled first to London (his home at that time) and then to France, his adoptive home. 
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INDIA HAS NO law to criminalize child sexual abuse (CSA). The Prevention of Offences against Children Bill was drafted in 2005, but it has been in the cold storage despite the setting up of the Commission on the Protection of Child Rights in the same year. On a wave of moral panic after the Ruchira molestation case resurfaced, the government drafted the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2010 (CLA) to review rape laws in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) – to redefine rape beyond non-consensual peno-vaginal penetration and have clear provisions on CSA. 
) who has seen a bit of life and the world, the three words that get a rise out of me are these: What Women Want.
LIKE MANY WOMEN, my reaction — or shall we say relationship? — to Elizabeth Gilbert’s juggernaut bestseller Eat Pray Love (first published and 2006 and by 2008 a global sensation) was complicated. On the one hand, the book is mildly embarrassing; Eat Pray Love falls squarely in the chick lit category, a schmaltzy fairytale-like admission to the feminine hankering for fairytale-like love (someone even recently quipped on Twitter that the first problem she had with it was how to hide the fact that she was reading it). On the other hand, however, it’s a rather good read, a true story, a real woman’s memoir of overcoming a comparatively small yet personally overwhelming struggle. In its own fairytale-like way, it is irresistible — but this was also the source of its doom.
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