Livemint : The gender divide in the Indian... The gender divide in the Indian labour market. Mumbai: One of the biggest shifts in the Indian labour market has been the dramatic withdrawal of women workers in the past few years.
India’s female labour force participation rate, or the proportion of women who opt for work, fell nearly seven percentage points to 22.5% between 2004-05 and 2011-12. Low female labour participation rates have been a structural problem in India for long but the recent decline means the country has among the lowest proportions of working women. India ranks 10th from the bottom among countries ranked according to their female labour force participation rate, World Bank data show.
The greatest withdrawal of women from the labour force occurred in rural areas, and was largely in agriculture. Gender Forum: Why Kali Won't Rage. Why Kali Won't Rage: A Critique of Indian Feminism. by Rita Banerji, Calcutta, India.
Why Do We Abort? « Left at the Lights. Jane* was a client at one of the places I worked.
She was a working mum, barely making enough to break even with childcare costs but she preferred to work. She had been accessing our service for a while. We provided support to women still in abusive relationships, safety planning so as to reduce the frequency of abusive incidents. Arrested at Hospital for Demanding Medical Care, Woman Dies in Jail Cell. Trigger Warning for medical neglect and abuse, police abuse, and discussions of the child welfare system The St.
Louis Post-Dispatch reports: Anna Brown wasn’t leaving the emergency room quietly.She yelled from a wheelchair at St. Mary’s Health Center security personnel and Richmond Heights police officers that her legs hurt so badly she couldn’t stand.She had already been to two other hospitals that week in September, complaining of leg pain after spraining her ankle.This time, she refused to leave.A police officer arrested Brown for trespassing. Cities / Delhi : Up against the epidemic of trafficking. “Prostitution is not inevitable, it is only about unequal distribution of power,” said author/activist Gloria Steinem talking about “Feminist approaches to combating sex trafficking and prostitution” here on Monday.
Speaking at a Press conference and later at an interaction with students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, she spoke about the dynamics of human trafficking based on her experiences. “Today we face an epidemic of sex trafficking. More people are being pushed into it than even the slave trade,” said Ms. Steinem. According to the statistics provided by Apne Aap, an NGO that fights sex trafficking worldwide, the number of child victims trafficked globally for sexual exploitation or cheap labour is 1.2 million annually.
Corroborating these facts, Ms. Speaking about the situation in India, Apne Aap Women Worldwide founder president Ruchira Gupta pointed out that socio-economic causes contribute a great deal towards sexual exploitation and trafficking of women in India. How the US uses sexual humiliation as a political tool to control the masses. The discussion continues today at 12pm ET (5pm UK time) when Naomi Wolf takes your questions about her column.
Join us for an hour long live chat about the supreme court, strip searches and sexual humiliation. In a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be strip-searched upon arrest for any offense, however minor, at any time. Watch The Perfect Vagina Documentary Online Free. Melinda Gates: Let's put birth control back on the agenda. Navigating Gender in Modern Intimate Partnership Law by Alicia Kelly. Widener University - School of LawApril 9, 2012 Journal of Law & Family Studies, Vol. 14, 2012 Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-13 Abstract: With women edging up to become half the workforce, claims of women’s economic empowerment now abound.
Post Secrets by Angela Serratore. Angela Serratore Tags: communication, letters, New York, rules and regulations, women “The post-office system offers a facility for clandestine correspondence which no respectable father or mother on the European side of the Atlantic would think of without a shudder, if it were proposed to give our young women a similar privilege.”
—Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, January 1867 Communication of and by women has always struck fear into the hearts of men (see: novels; epistolary), but until the middle of the nineteenth century it was largely manageable—husbands and fathers, even servants, monitored a lady’s letters, and the wild fluctuations in cost of mail kept all but the wealthiest of girls and women from taking pen to paper on a regular basis. Let Them Eat Cake. Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman's story. Another Jack the Ripper exhibition. Finn MackayCo-Founder: Feminist Coalition Against Prostitutionwww.fcap.btik.com.
The Startling Plight of China's Leftover Ladies - By Christina Larson. Hirsi Ali, Berman, and Ramadan on Islam. Was the prophet Muhammad a pervert and a tyrant?
Does Islam promote terrorism and enslave women? Does Islam oblige its followers to wage jihad on Westerners whose roots lie in the secular Enlightenment? Should Muslims consider converting to Christianity? Nuns should stop helping the poor so much and focus more on taking away women’s rights.