Tag: GENDER
Rediscovering Seva in the Age of Modernity and Markets
The article explores how the traditionally ingrained moral ideals of seva and dharma are being rediscovered and redefined in the age of hyper-modernity and the all pervasive presence of the market culture.
Teaching little girls to lead
In a world where we are well aware that superheroes are mostly boys and princesses are girls, it becomes difficult to model leadership for young women.
Understanding How Gender Barriers Impact Subject Choices in School Education
The article tries to examine gender biases that impacts subject choices in school education impacting the lives of
countless women in India and the world.
The Prison of Gender Roles
What “it” has a greater hold on people’s imaginations or limits them more than ideas about what biological sex must mean, what I call...
Love as the Practice of Freedom
Without love, our efforts to liberate ourselves and our world community from oppression and exploitation are doomed
Achieving gender equality in India: what works, and what doesn’t
India as a country sees many discrepancies as far as achieving the goal of gender equity is concerned, how can the gaps in the system be effectively addressed?
Sex or Gender: How Society Conditions us and Makes us Conform
Society often compels us to confirm to mainstream perceptions of gender identities. But can we think differently?
Sexed Semen: What’s Wrong With Our Gendered Cattle Breeding Technologies?
The article looks at the problems associated with semen technology and its over emphasis on producing only female calves.
Plans to Prevent Future Pandemics Must Consider Gender Issues, too
The article highlights how any planning for a pandemic-free world needs to take the gender question so seriously.
Women in Afghanistan worry peace accord with Taliban extremists could cost them hard-won rights
Outspoken critics of the Taliban’s undemocratic vision of peace have often been threatened or killed, will this continue to compromise on women's access to rights in the future?
