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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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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