Mutilating clitoral hood is not the rite of passage to womanhood

11 Feb 2023 08:22 AM IST

Female Genital Mutilation or FGM, is the greatest human rights violation. It is about the genital of a woman that is mutilated without her consent. This itself is a major crime. Unfortunately, one doesn’t have an accurate number or a report of this practice, as most of the victims are

Mutilating clitoral hood is not the rite of passage to womanhood.

11 Feb 2023 02:30 AM IST

Female Genital Mutilation or FGM, is the greatest human rights violation. It is about the genital of a woman that is mutilated without her consent. This itself is a major crime. Unfortunately, one doesn’t have an accurate number or a report of this practice, as most of the victims are

We Women Want: Discussing Women’s reproductive health

10 Feb 2023 14:58 PM IST

This week on We Women Want, we talk about women’s reproductive health with Dr Jayshree Sundar, the director of obstetrics at Madhukar Rainbow Hospital, who has been described by her colleagues as the busiest gynecologist in Delhi and Dr Tanya Buckshee Rohatgi, an IVF specialist. Tanya is the lead consultant

IS THE ART WORLD MORE TOLERANT OF WOMEN?

05 Feb 2023 16:14 PM IST

This week’s episode of We Women Want features actor and author Lisa Ray and Myna Mukherjee, curator & founder/director of Engendered. This week’s episode is set amidst Myna’s latest curation, ‘One Story is Not Enough.’ It features a variety of artistic perspectives across mediums with artists from India, USA, Iran,

WE WOMEN WANT: TRANS FEMININES OPEN UP ABOUT THEIR STRUGGLES

21 Jan 2023 07:24 AM IST

What is a transfeminine, how is it different from being a homosexual? What are the laws that help transwomen, and what are the surgeries involved? These are some of the issues raised in this week’s episode of “We Women Want,” as we speak to a panel comprising of Niti Shukla,

My mother still thinks I am a curse to the THEIR STRUGGLES family: Naaz Joshi

21 Jan 2023 07:20 AM IST

Naaz Joshi is India’s first transgender international beauty queen. Her life is full of extreme highs and lows. Although she has made India proud in lots of international beauty pageants, it is still difficult for her to survive on her own. Her source of income is very limited, in spite

It is to be seen how justice will be delivered in such sticky situations, as marital rape, where marriage to date is the basis of patriarchal rules

21 Jan 2023 07:19 AM IST

Is there anything that is debatable or valid as the autonomy of a woman’s body? Or is this only an idea of a radical feminist movement? Must this be thwarted before it becomes an issue that society is frightened to address? The answer to these questions even today remains as

WE WOMEN WANT: DISCUSSING WOMEN IN WORKPLACES

14 Jan 2023 07:25 AM IST

This week, We Women Want takes a look at women and the workplace, taking up issues of pay parity, gender sensitivity amongst colleagues, and also laws that women can take recourse to when these are not met. On the show are Anuradha Das Mathur, Founder and Dean of the Vedica

It Is A Woman, Not A Commode

14 Jan 2023 07:25 AM IST

Inebriated women till date are considered fallen women. She is referred to as “the one without a moral compass.” Someone who can’t be trusted to raise a family, be a mother, a wife, or a girlfriend. Yet, the very men who judge her never have to suffer such indignity, even

We Women Want: Discussing breast cancer, IVF and domestic violence

07 Jan 2023 07:12 AM IST

This week on We Women Want, we bring back some of the issues we raised in 2022. BREAST CANCER The issue of breast cancer is one that needs a lot of awareness because a large number of cases go undetected. Also, the women are usually left to fend for themselves,

Accepting diverse gender norms is imperative

07 Jan 2023 07:11 AM IST

Binary gender identity has been the basis for social construct in society since time immemorial, defining gender roles and expectations from both sexes in society, such as men being primarily expected to earn and provide for the family, while women are expected to bear children and run the household. However,

We Women Want: Plus size influencer opens up about body shaming

31 Dec 2022 07:25 AM IST

This week, We Women Want takes up the issue of body shaming with Instagram influencer Anindita Roy, who goes by the name “The Plus Girl.” As she points out, being fat does not mean you are unhealthy. Being healthy or not also depends on your lifestyle and level of physical