Both widows and widowers in India face challenges living alone, though women of course are more vulnerable. After losing a spouse, both genders experience difficulties like food insecurity and abuse…
Living alone among older adults could offer independence for some, but it can pose serious challenges of social isolation, healthcare access, and financial security for many. Addressing these…
We need changes to strengthen the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013 to fully protect all vulnerable women. The law must also take social imbalances and power differences at work into…
Educated women leaving the workforce hurts India’s growth. But child & family care options are lacking in the work structures we now have. We need “bridge” jobs, like part-time work, to help…
The 2023 Women Power Reservation Act links reservation of seats to delimitation, which can be done only after a census is carried out. It also doesn't have a quota for the OBCs and will have to…
The process of passing the Women’s Reservation Bill last September underlined how little the substantive process mattered to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Government. Political parties, civil…
The dominant mindset in India's science community has produced a gruelling culture that casts aside a large proportion of women and other minority groups. Governmental measures to improve…
Whose recourse to surrogacy is accepted socially and whose is frowned upon, or even legally prohibited, is a chequered terrain. Popular stereotypes have seeped into policymaking, even as social ways…
The judiciary's disinclination to criminalise marital rape flows from a vertical approach to constitutional rights, which fosters a public-private divide to the disadvantage of women. A…
With multiple, intersectional, and contesting masculinities, there are barriers and challenges to engaging men on gender equality. What are the opportunities for a feminist, intersectional, and…
