Gender and Society – Page 8 – NICKELED AND DIMED

A Gendered Perspective of the Partition and State Building in India and Pakistan

This article discusses how violence against women came to be synonymous with the Partition while also focusing on how the recovery of women was paramount to state-building processes in India and Pakistan.
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Diverse Connotations Surrounding Equity and Femininity

Although there have been attempts to modify the stain on transgender persons, the legislature has done very little to bring forth the needed advancements in the system. The image of victims and survivors is constantly defined in the courtrooms to outcast particular sections of society. The article aims to study the role of judiciary and…
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Gender Gap In Financial Decision -Making Policy

This article aims at reviewing that though women do face problems in financial decision-making and lack of financial security in various stages of life, they are not always because of a lack of financial knowledge but sometimes the policy framework and the household environment as well as perspectives.
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Parental Leave Policies and Gender Neutrality around the World

Parental leave policies including maternity or paternity leaves are not gender-neutral worldwide. The provisions of each country on parental leaves depend on several factors including length, income replacement rate, and the number of days for which the leave is compulsory. This article studies data from the 16th International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research…
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Cultural Anxieties, Jennifer’s Body and Bulbbul

The objective of this article is to identify and elaborate on the cultural anxieties that are coded in two feminist cult classic movies; Jennifer’s Body and Bulbbul.
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Between Stigma and Incompetent Governance: Transgender Rights in India

This article is a constitutional analysis of the landmark judgement NALSA v. Union of India and the developments that followed after it. After the Supreme Court’s mandate of the need for a law that protects the rights of the transgender community in India, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act came out in the year…
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MIRROR: A Reflection of an Ideal Image of the Female Body

As an instrument of heteronormativity, body politics plays to these stereotypes to produce and reproduce an ideal image of femininity, exposing female bodies to marginalization and the ‘male gaze.’ In the evolution of feminism, where gender as an institution of ‘power’ is adopted, some light is shed on the precarity of women who are victims…
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Perpetuation and Reinforcement of Rape Culture in Print Media

The objective of this article is to examine how the print media, specifically English print media, shapes and upholds a toxic and misogynistic rape culture that violates women’s dignity and human rights, as well as how it affects society and shapes beliefs that see women as second-class citizens to men.
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Menstrual Leave: A not-so-sacred issue

The debates on menstrual leave have been facing backlash from the prevailing conventions on menstruation that constantly exclude people of different genders who also menstruate. Menstrual leave is an advanced talk concerning menstruation to the nation that is even now trying to cope with period talk and sanitary pads out of black covers. This article…
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Savitribai Phule: The Relevance of the Woman who Fought for the Annihilation of Caste and Patriarchy

Savitribai Phule made a significant contribution to literature and culture in addition to playing a pivotal role in the social movement for the emancipation of women via education and against oppressive caste systems. This article aims to explore the birth of intersectional feminism in India through the life and contributions of Savitribai Phule and how…
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Sofia Coppola’s Room of Pinks: The Isolation of Femininity

Critically acclaimed director Sofia Coppola has brought to screen the most sacred place of all– the room of a girl. But behind the pale pinks and gleams of trinkets, she places a world full of dissociation, loneliness and isolation. This article discusses three films by Coppola that materialised these buried aspects of girlhood.
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Discussing the Deficits in Decent Work

As a part of Interlinked’s sub-series, Kitabon ka Karwaan, we held a book talk that explores a recent report published by the ILO on the “Deficits in Decent Work: Employer perspectives and practices on the quality of employment in domestic work in urban India”. For this podcast, We are joined by Dr Neha Wadhawan from…
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