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Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It’s not about gender, necessarily Dan Savage It should be clearly understood that it is not only the responsibility of the mothers to look after their children. The child’s growth and behaviour depend on how the parents bring them and in what atmosphere they grow in. Thus, parenting …
Human rights violation has been prevalent for years everywhere. Women have been facing a lot of health and social issues because of the lack of toilets. Right to private latrine is as basic as right to food. India still remains to be the number one country for open defecation, overpopulation, lack of sanitation and a …
Femicide, the term was first used in England to describe “killing of a woman”. Later on, Carol Orlock, an American author, initiated the use of the term in her anthology on femicide. Diana E.H. Russell, a feminist writer, first used the term in public when giving a speech on first International Tribunal on Crimes Against …
The other day I was walking alone and a guy kept following me, it was not the first time, and I have seen him around so many times and it wasn’t comfortable, and I was clueless as what to do. My friend received some many unnecessary inappropriate messages over social media. Yes, you guessed it …
We often come across the term rape culture. Most of us believe it to be a way of quoting cases of sexual assaults against high profile personalities and consider it as a myth. But rape culture isn’t a myth, it’s real and it’s high time now that we acknowledge it to be the biggest menace …
For some Eve teasing is a joke for some it’s a trauma. Here the question is, How come a thing that’s traumatizing for someone can be fun for others. Maybe because people don’t know the consequences of their actions or to be precise they don’t care. Firstly tell me, What is Eve teasing? Eve teasing …
Imagine waking up in a bed soaked in blood. Imagine borrowing a friend’s jacket to cover up your stain. Imagine not going to school every month for five days. Sounds horrible doesn’t it? This is the life of thousands of girls in India. 66% of India’s female population begin menstruation completely unaware and unprepared. “When …
There is a common liking for white face skin in the South Asian countries. Fair skin, especially in the female segment of these countries suggests superiority and beauty. The trend of using the fairness creams among them has emerged in the last fifty years. This obsession with being whitish has been greatly exploited by the …
Our Indian society revolves around two words sanskaar, and sanskaari. No one actually knows the correct meaning of these words but they sure use them a lot. People don’t seem to care whether they know the true meaning or not, because these two words give them a license to judge a person. So, Are you …
The belief that virginity is valuable and sexual purity is of prime importance is coerced in women from a very young age. Losing it before marriage makes them “damaged”, “desperate” and even “sluts”. Women are shamed for having sex but men are rewarded for it. Virginity typically means never having had sex. However, sex has …