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Not for the faint-hearted: TOI on sexual lib

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

The O-zone on Sunday covered the new trend among 20-30 something women, most of whom are still single, going all out for one-night stands and no strings attached.
Sexcapades of young women, their casual attitude towards flings and open declaration that sex is just a physical need like any other, lead one to wonder how this [...]

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Tags: culture · economic development · empowerment · gender roles and division of labour · globalisation · health & well-being · human development · marriage/divorce · media · reproduction and repro rights · sex and sexuality

Compassion and children

August 26th, 2008 · No Comments

On the Psychology Today blog there’s a post which highlights the difficulty of dealing with gender roles as a wife and mother:
The fact is that women in most countries are expected to be compassionate, nurturing, and to put their own needs aside on a regular basis. In most Third World countries, a woman’s primary job is considered to be [...]

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Tags: GOI · empowerment · health & well-being · mobility · trade · violence against women/harrassment

Harrassment, etc

August 26th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: activism · culture · dowry · economic development · empowerment · gender bias · gender roles and division of labour · girl child · globalisation · mobility · sex and sexuality · trade · violence against women/harrassment

See my friend’s video

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

She has posted this promotional video for the NGO she runs, Bal Krriti, for slum children in an area on the outskirts of Jaipur.

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Tags: activism · empowerment · human development

SEWA’s inspiring eco-initiative

August 8th, 2008 · No Comments

SEWA has just launched a line of eco-friendly clothing to be sold internationally. (Don’t understand the 2007 on the photo, I guess the promotional photos pre-dated the launch!) The high-end brand, Hansiba, uses designs which combine western and ethnic Gujarati influences. SEWA plans to market the line first in Mexico and SAARC countries, before focusing [...]

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Tags: activism · economic development · empowerment · globalisation · trade