On the eve of Women’s Day – lets change the way our Public Figures speak out against women and their right to live!
How you ask? After all the constitution gives women equal rights – and the IPC protects women – well lets just start with random comments made from large public platforms like “boys will be boys” and “women are like sugar who shall attract ants”….
Do we smell Misogyny anyone?
10 quick WHAT NOT to do for our Public Figures….
A very powerful TED talk by Jackson Katz: “Violence against women—it’s a men’s issue”
I have personally encountered so so many of these in the last 8 years of working with women…and speaking to men who have in turn been intertwined with the lives of women:
https://www.ted.com/talks/jackson_katz_violence_against_women_it_s_a_men_s_issue#t-706870
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Gender and Women – in the field of Entrepreneurship – This was my topic at the 8th Jan #TheNextBigThing event at #Ranchi.
A first for me – discussing gender issues in a space where I normally address people on Social Entrepreneurship.
Gender is like an elephant in the room. We don’t talk about it in the open. We wish to “appear” to be gender agnostic – but we aren’t.
It shows so aptly what men and even women do when faced with a situation which can be “gender-charged” just by virtue of the name!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNqwBTCslMw
Mommyhood in India almost always defined a career break taken by working mothers out of what they refer to as their choice. I question that tenet in the 1st place – and ask that is it YOUR choice or the choice of social norms?
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