Becky Blab

The Washington Post had an in-depth piece on Indian women’s status. It starts off discussing ‘eve-teasing’, i.e. harrassment, but then delves into the whole range of issues from dowry to sex-selective abortion:
For India’s middle-class urban women, the past decade has brought unprecedented opportunities to advance in a social order long dominated by men. But a [...]

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Dr Meera Patodia, a gynaecologist of the Meera Hospital in the city has been charged with conducting an abortion without the consent of the mother in connivance with her in-laws.
The victim Renu Khediya in her complaint to the Mahila police station (East) on May 5 2006 had charged her husband Bhupendra Singh and in-laws Rahuraj [...]

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A photo campaign / internet-driven advocacy mission by Social Geographic on Flickr.

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Sanjukta has posted about India Together’s innovative project to promote dowry-free weddings through their Say no to dowry pledge drive. They provide free invitations in an electronic catalogue, with the logo you see in the bottom right corner.

She ponders,
I wonder how many people know about it and even if they know will they ever have the good [...]

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I hate articles with overly congratulatory language like this:
After centuries of living confined behind the veil, the so-called ‘weaker sex’ has finally come out in the open and conquered the world.

Just because the article is about three female executives, does not give the author the right to proclaim that Indian women have finally ‘arrived.’
If this [...]

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