Becky Blab

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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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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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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