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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The process of passing the Women’s Reservation Bill in September underlined how little the substantive process mattered to the BJP-led Government. Political parties, civil society, and other stakeholders have to ensure that the new law does not remain an empty promise.
With #MeToo, the impacts have been even more varied and expansive than Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter movements, making it an important case study into how mass mobilization can seed change in many different arenas of society.
Here, in five charts, we try to decode the life of women in Rajasthan and answer whether the statistics are in sync with the situation in other states and at the all India-level.
A woman experiencing gender violence often incurs higher costs, including medical expenses, emotional well-being, and disruptions to education or employment. Also: ‘The Social Shame of Violence Against Women’.
There is a growing body of physiological, anatomical, ethnographic and archaeological evidence to suggest that not only did women hunt in our evolutionary past, but they may well have been better suited for such an endurance-dependent activity.
‘Family Law Reforms After Marriage (In)Equality’: The marriage equality verdict is a decisive break from the Supreme Court’s rights-enhancing jurisprudence in the realm of gender; Also: ‘Marriage Equality Judgment: The Missing Case of International Covenants’.
The PUCL expresses its deep disappointment with respect to the verdict of the Supreme Court denying the right to marry to the LGBTQI community. It is unfortunate that the bench was unanimous in declaring that there is no fundamental right to marriage.
India is ranked 116th among 146 countries as per the Global Gender Index. The gender-pay gap in India continues to afflict its labour markets and the constitutional value of equality. Also: “India Had Most Maternal Deaths, Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths in 2020, Says UN Report”.
Women and their struggle for equality are inherently tied to the struggle for democracy in India.
The BJP raising the women’s reservation issue, in the last eight months of a nine and a half year tenure of the Modi government, appears to be wanting to take the heat off serious concerns that have tarred the record of this government around the safety and well-being of women.
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