Gender

A student of class X of Madrassa Islamia, Chahat Mohammadi is a determined girl. She sets out with her friends on a journey to educate women and girls in her locality and adjoining rural areas about the importance of menstrual hygiene. She…

In construction sites, women are mostly involved only as workers, but a Women Self Help Groups(SHGs) in Purulia district of West Bengal is breaking the stereotype and making women to build Toilets. The story features the construction site…

“Utho, Jaago, Lokhyo naa pohchano porjonto thaamo naa (Get up, Wake up, and until you find your destination don’t stop),” is the welcoming phrase at the entrance of the small primary school in Gundlubari Village, situated at Hura block in…

The South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), in collaboration with the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Initiative (WASH) by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), organized a conference on the theme of ‘Gender &…

I knew I would not find the elusive, colorful Palash flower at this of the year in Purulia but I still hoped to find that one fresh twist in the routine, mundane sanitation, gender stories that would make me say that not only the Palash…

NANDITA SINGH Now that Akbar is freed from shackles of political scrutiny, he can drag Priya Ramani’s name through the mud without dirtying BJP’s image. It took 20 women journalists decades to speak out against the alleged sexual…

by Krishn Kaushik , Somya Lakhani Minutes after Minister of State (External Affairs) M J Akbar resigned Wednesday over allegations of sexual harassment and assault, journalist Priya Ramani, who was the first to name him publicly, tweeted:…

by Krishn Kaushik , Somya Lakhani Minutes after Minister of State (External Affairs) M J Akbar resigned Wednesday over allegations of sexual harassment and assault, journalist Priya Ramani, who was the first to name him publicly, tweeted:…

SAWM India stands in solidarity with women who have over the past few days come out with their accounts of workplace sexual harassment. We have noted with deep concern the patriarchal and offensive behaviour of men within the journalistic…

South Asian Women in Media (India) condemns the attack on Meghalaya Journalist and Editor of the Shillong Times, Patricia Mukhim, whose home was targeted by unidentified assailants in Shillong with a petrol bomb on April 17th. While it is…