Becky Blab

I just found out about an episode of Oprah which highlighted American couples seeking out Indian women to act as surrogate mothers, i.e. incubators.
I had no idea about this going on here. It is not mentioned in the media at all. If it were, I’m pretty sure people would react with disgust. Just one more [...]

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The United Women Front (UWF), India’s first national political party formed by women, was launched yesterday to provide women a forum in Indian politics.  No stranger to the game, the party president is Suman Krishan Kant, wife of the former Vice-President, Krishan Kant: “We are tired of waiting for the Women’s Reservation Bill.”
I am eager [...]

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A pair of articles in the Times of India highlights findings which are either highly disturbing or completely normal, depending how you look at them: ‘Many women justify wife beating‘ and ‘In most states, women don’t even feel victimised‘. Gender discrimination is so ingrained and natural that it desensitises us from even thinking that physical [...]

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Some women sit at home for five days a month, and development workers say that ignoring this mundane need for a product Western women take for granted is taking a toll on the health and education of Indian women.
Not as though women’s health and education weren’t already suffering, but this certainly adds another dimension. Especially [...]

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A recent study has found that often recently married young women (in Gujarat and West Bengal) are likely to be coerced into sex. I admit I haven’t read the whole journal article, but this press release. It is annoying that despite the scope of the research only among two states, the tendency is to generalise [...]

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