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August 31, 2010By Aparna Singh The recent Michael Arrington post on why women mustn’t blame men for their lower numbers in technology is eliciting reactions, fast and furious. While I don’t think Arrington’s tone helps, I am not going to get into the subject here. Instead, I’d like to refer you to Shefaly Yogendra’s excellent post, “Women in tech: What gives?”, where [...] Tags: career growth for women, empowering women, Gender, housework, Indian society and women, women in technology | Category: Work Life |
May 25, 2010By Oishik Sircar HERE’S A PART IMAGINARY, part real email thread of conversations among faculty members at an elite law university in India. Two developments are being discussed simultaneously – one is a weekly cricket match, and the second is the establishment of a women-only Women’s Law Society. The names of participants in the conversation have been changed [...] Tags: education, Gender, India, Indian society and women, stereotypes | Category: Gender, Humour, Institutions, Society, Women's Lives, Work Life |
September 17, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat …YOU MAY WANT TO take a look at this invite: Anyone want to get me that yummy t-shirt in red? Tags: expression, Gender, Indian society and women, women, women's history | Category: Art, Celebrating Women, Gender, Women's Lives |
July 17, 2008By Aparna Singh A FEW DAYS AGO, when I thought about the conflict parents face when their daughters become “too liberal”, I was really thinking from my own perspective as an educated, young, urban professional. When a commenter mentioned that liberalism does not yet extend to accepting choices such as homosexuality, I was, at first, a bit startled. [...] May 23, 2008By Usha B N WESTERN FEMINIST movements in the early 1970s confronted an uncomfortable truth: the notion that God was male dominated every aspect of religion. As feminist philosopher Mary Daly summed up, “If God is male, then the male is God.” The question of gender, religion and faith has been a very contentious one. Feminists have looked into [...] Tags: akka mahadevi, Books, Gender, religion, review, saints, spirituality | Category: Books, Society, Women's Lives |
March 17, 2008By Usha B N IT WAS DURING the anti-Mandal protests that many young, urban women from universities held up placards saying that an increase in reservation for the Dalit and OBC population would harm their chances of getting qualified men as husbands. During the riots in Mumbai after the Babri Masjid demolition and in the Gujarat pogrom, many Hindu [...] |
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