Instituting Menstrual Leave Is a Step Towards Equal Workplaces
It is not just about allowing or disallowing relief but also about ensuring a workplace atmosphere that recognises and accepts menstruation.
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When a Woman in India Chooses Not to Take Her Husband’s Surname
From facing social pressures to financial setbacks, women recount the tribulations that followed because they kept their maiden names.
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Iran’s Feminist Revolution: Two Articles
Many of Iran’s most vocal feminists are languishing in prison. Nevertheless, women in Iran continue their fight. Through their fight, women in Iran are building solidarity that transcends national, class, racial and religious lines.
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25 November: International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women
UN Secy. General Antonio Guterres said in his message for the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women and Children that “every 11 minutes, a woman or girl is killed by an intimate partner or family member”. This article seeks to understand the roots of this violence.
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Indian Women are Sold & Resold for Marriage, Sexual Slavery, Child-Bearing, Cheap Labour
On the continuing abuse and exploitation of women and minor girls from impoverished eastern states trafficked to fill the gap in states with a skewed sex ratio.
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The Indian Domestic Violence Scenario is Chilling
The socio-legal system is currently designed to fail victims of domestic abuse, thanks to dilution of laws like section 498A IPC, patriarchal and misogynistic application of the law, judicial denial of the seriousness of domestic violence, crimes against women, and low employment among women.
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Aruna Asaf Ali and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: Revolutionary Women in the Freedom Struggle
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Aruna Asaf Ali were two prominent women in the freedom struggle who were near contemporaries. Examining their lives together uncovers an essential unity in their vision, which may not have been realized during their life-time but serves as an inspiration today.
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“Truth and Reconciliation Require the Shedding of Aggressive Masculinity”
Doniger, author of several acclaimed works and a distinguished translator of Sanskrit texts, talks to writer Githa Hariharan about the book translated by her, ‘After the War’ (Speaking Tiger, 2022), which is a new translation of the final parts of the Mahabharata.
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Concerns Around Abortion in India Differ from Those in the West
The Supreme Court order reaffirming safe and legal termination of pregnancy is welcome. The question is, whether the new judicial interpretation will ensure abortion rights by making it obligatory on the state to address the structural barriers in abortion-care services.
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Protest in Iran: Historical and International Contexts
Falk addresses the events surrounding Mahsa Amini’s September 13th detention and reported death three days later as well as the meaning of her Kurdish identity.
