Marriages Aren’t Ordained in Heaven, and Marital Rape Won’t be Solved There Either
As long as women are voided of their agency, reduced to corpses while making love and are dehumanised, marital rapes are bound to occur.
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As long as women are voided of their agency, reduced to corpses while making love and are dehumanised, marital rapes are bound to occur.
Recently, a well-known journalist, Dileep Mandal, who has been appointed to the post of Consultant by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, has advanced the preposterous claim that Fatima Shaikh, whose name is inextricably linked with that of the iconic Savitri Bai Phule, is a figment of his own imagination.
Conservative attitudes, poor awareness and misconceptions are major hurdles in getting the reproductive health procedure which is perfectly legal.
In a recent ruling, Justices B. Nagarathna and Kotiswar Singh of the Supreme Court stated that there is a “growing tendency” for women to misuse Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) — their observations risk perpetuating harmful stereotypes about women misusing the legal system.
The recent passage of The Nagaland Municipal Bill, 2023 in Nagaland, which provides 33% reservation for women in Urban Local Governments, signifies a substantial shift in gender perspectives in the state.
This paper attempts to examine the following questions. Does Islam provide for gender equality? To what extent this equality of sexes is found in practice in Islamic societies? Are there any deviations from the scriptural precepts of gender equality? What reformative measures have been undertaken in Muslim countries to improve the status of women by enacting laws?
Researchers estimated there may have been more than 64,500 pregnancies resulting from rape in the 14 states that have enacted near-total abortion bans since ‘Roe v. Wade’ was overturned in 2022, according to a research letter published in the journal ‘JAMA Internal Medicine’.
Across the world, the voices of women are frequently dismissed, disbelieved, or outright ignored. This tragic reality stems from a deeply ingrained societal bias that views women as manipulative, deceitful, and cunning, effectively demonising them and invalidating their experiences.
Women in Bengaluru are unraveling patriarchy, stitch by stitch, song by song.
From Prajwal Revanna, Brij Bhushan, Manipur, Kathua and Hathras, the Bhartiya Janata Party has a history of supporting alleged sexual offenders.
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