भारत की बेटी हूँ बाबा साहब को अपना आदर्श मानती हूँ मैंने आज दुनिया को हमारे देश के संविधान की ताक़त दिखा दी !!
हम है बाबा साहब के सपनों का दलित समाज !! पढ़ेंगे लिखेंगे और ऐसे ही अपने देश का नाम दुनिया में रोशन करेंगे !!
जय भीम जय भारत जय संविधान 🙏🏻
#Unitednations
#HRC54
Story of two 19-year-old women, both of their dreams and lives crushed. One was raped at the workplace, she later died. Another choked to death by parents because she fell in love. Society talks big about women's empowerment but when they follow their dreams, they are crushed.
Nobody gets free pass. You can see old tweets on this timeline. "Women and religion" is a dedicated category on our website to cover women's rights clash with religious dogmas. Problem is, right wing doesn't see everything. They start attacking us just assuming we have bias.
@sanjukta
@WomenNewsIN
If its truly Secular than food. If Hinduism is open for healthy criticism I am all for it. But it cant be selective. No religion shud be given a free pass including Islam for the fear of STSJ. Ye doglapan nahi chalna chahiye.
Patriarchal norms even today mandate that women should have long hair. Short hair women face hate, humiliation and name calling. Perhaps because it is easier to pull and drag women by their hair and beat.
Does anybody know what is
@smritiirani
job on a day to day basis as WCD Minister? Like, she goes to office and does some work? What is that work? You might say, these are busy people can't attend every phone call, can't comment on every rape. So, what is their job?
To make a report on this, we called
@NCWIndia
and
@MinistryWCD
to ask whether they have a statement on the cases.
@smritiirani
's office said "not on phone, please email us." NCW's phone kept ringing nobody picked up. Isn't it their job to be available to citizens?
Story of two 19-year-old women, both of their dreams and lives crushed. One was raped at the workplace, she later died. Another choked to death by parents because she fell in love. Society talks big about women's empowerment but when they follow their dreams, they are crushed.
Millions of women do carry their own luggage, women put in the entire physical labour in agricultural fields, carry tons of weight in brick kilns, construction sites and also do cooking and care giving while husbands play cards. Not even 10% men in India do any household chores.
One can bet that almost every home in this Ujjain locality does a Kanya Puja / kanchak during Ashtami / Navami in which they worship little girls. But on an usual day they cannot move a finger to save the life and dignity of a bleeding girl. What does this say about a society?
Feminism is about challenging the mindset that men do these work for women. They don't. Patriarchy has designed society in such a way that women are forced to stay at home so men can pre-occupy these jobs. More on this when we meet on Zoom.
@WomenNewsIN
@SayaniBh
@sanjukta
Construction, mining, driving, logistics (delivery etc), security guards, are men. Breaking their back for their families. How is it that feminism can’t acknowledge, appreciate, respect that work. I thought feminism was about equality of two genders.
Private transport organization in Karnataka protesting against
#ShaktiScheme
which offers free bus rides to women claiming that it is killing their business, a business 100% occupied by men. Men protesting against women's unprecedentedly high access to public space.
When we hear about
#UjjainHorror
it's natural to point out the hypocrisy in a society that worships cows, makes tall claims about worshiping Goddess but cannot help a bleeding girl. Can't balance this by talking about Muslims, because they do not make such tall claims.
Kerala, 14 year old Muslim girl tortured and killed by father over interfaith relationship. Religion is relevant here because rights activists in India needs to speak up against patriarchy amongst Muslim families as much as they speak against Hindu RW targeting Muslims.
Yes, it absolutely does. It is cruelty even if the abuse was in private but it's worse when done in public, and even more worse is to humiliate her in front of her students who should have nothing but respect for their teacher.
Here's a wonderful report by
@ThePrintIndia
on the Green Army, a group of Dalit, tribal and OBC women from UP's Kushiyari village who are fighting patriarchy, liberating women one drunk abusive husband at a time.
Here's proof that giving symbolic position as Goddess or celebrating their relational status on Rakhi makes no change in women's real status in society. What can be more ironical than two sisters gang raped on Rakhi. That too by son of BJP leader.
Therefore, let's educate and employ all the women so that they can earn and live their lives independently without the lifelong burden of cooking and cleaning for a man and men stop living on women's free labour, and get their a**es to the kitchen, get a grip and figure it out.
When you employ a man, you don't just feed one mouth but two, considering he marries an unemployed woman. But when you employ a woman you only feed one mouth because women will never marry an unemployed man.
Let this sink in and let this close all the women empowerment debates.
Dear
@SayaniBh
and
@AbhilashaPurwar
, in the spirit of dialogues we would like to invite you both for a face to face (zoom meeting) chat on the topic recently discussed, "gender stereotypes and household work" to be moderated by
@sanjukta
. Please let us know if you can join.
In most of these cases of fake godmen performing religious stunts, miracles, curing diseases and problems etc. the victims of the fakery are women. Women are exploited, sexually abused. Women of India need freedom from all religious cults and superstitions.
#Stalin
said the half truth. The full truth is- 'All' religions should be eradicated. Religions follow Astha & Vishwas rather than
#Truth
. India adopted 'सत्यमेव जयते' as national quote, not आस्थामेव जयते or विश्वासमेव जयते. Let ONLY truth prevail. Everything else- let them die.
Media should stop giving irrelevant information as to the reasons because immediately on knowing reasons millions of people will justify this. Headlines should be, "Woman stripped, paraded naked for her life's personal choice." What that choice is, is irrelevant.
Suicide deaths amongst Indians is on the rise with men suicide rate increasing 2 times more than women in 2021 finds a Lancet study.
Editorial: Feminist discourse should address the crisis of men and not always see it separately as men's problem. It's a structural problem.
Left ideology brought change in the world. It gave people the understanding that social systems like landlords dominating peasants, men dominating women, Whites dominating Blacks, capitalists dominating labourers can be questioned and changed. It gave us the language to question.
Both free bus rides and free LPG cylinders or free ration or lakhs of crores of loan write-off cost money to public exchequer. But
@BJP4Karnataka
constantly fueling fake issue that women riding buses, gaining access to public space is killing economy. Highly condemnable.
"Feminism doesn't interest me much anymore, when fascist forces are so strong, nobody is safe, we need to talk about everyone."
Feminist-activist Sheeba Aslam Fehmi on feminism, secularism, being Muslim in India. Watch full video on YouTube
Truth is no news of violence against women make it to national discourse with pol leaders giving statements, media doing TV debates, public running Twitter trends etc. unless there's Hindu-Muslim, Dalit-UC, BJP-Cong angle. Because women are seen as a community's property/concern.
We are not doing politics when we question
@NCWIndia
and
@MinistryWCD
on news reports of violence against women. Citizens have a right to know what these bodies/ministries do, what's their job profile? Shoudn't they speak on everyday issues? If not, what's their job?
VIDEO | Girl students of a government school in Mahnar of Bihar's Vaishali district vandalise the vehicle of Education Department officer while protesting against lack of facilities in the school.
@FreePressMP
One can bet that almost every home in this Ujjain locality does a Kanya Puja / kanchak during Ashtami / Navami in which they worship little girls. But on an usual day they cannot move a finger to save the life and dignity of a bleeding girl. What does this say about a society?
Women didn't get pregnant all the time because of sexual desires or lack of birth control but because they were married off as a child sent away with a man who thought sex is his right, she had no power to say no. Seems you've never read anything about women's issues.
@WomenNewsIN
Didn’t need men to impregnate them at will, do you have logic/ history/ basic sense ? Dude without protection that was invented in like 1960s, if you do, you get knocked up.
Are you the feminist telling me women don’t have sexual desires ? 🙃
A man killed his 61-year-old wife who was a lawyer in Delhi High Court because she refused to sell some property. No national outrage over this because there's no Hindu-Muslim, dalit-Brahmin, BJP-Congress angle.
10 year old girl sold by her father to a Muslim couple who raped and tortured her, kept her locked in a bathroom for days. Yet another news report that appears and disappears without any public discourse. No protests, outrage, TV debates. Let's together change that.
It seems reasonable. If absolutely no sexual comments or gestures were made merely an abusive word cannot outrage women's modesty. "Women's modesty" itself is a gender stereotype. It assumes women are too weak and sensetive and can't even handle a quarrel.
The
#DelhiHighCourt
observed that insulting a woman or being rude to her and not behaving in a chivalrous manner will not amount to outraging her modesty. The court set aside an order that placed a man on trial for calling a woman "gandi aurat."
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@iawsofficial
for the latest updates in India's biggest conference on Women Studies, gender, sexuality and other feminist issues. We will also soon bring a report on the conference.
It's been an honor to be selected to share our note on Gender gap in STEMM in the Indian socio-economic context, at the 17th National Conference of Indian Association for Women's Studies
@iawsofficial
. Thanks to Soham for presenting the work at the conference in India.
Adult Muslim woman converted to Hinduism and married Hindu man. Couple approached Allahabad HC to get protection from family harassment but did not get relief because their marriage is not valid under UP's anti-Love Jihad law. She didn't give notice to DM before conversion.
A woman can be upfront about her demands and if the man has a problem he won't marry her. Nobody is forcing it. That's the difference. Traditionally women are forcefully married off and entire burden of household work falls on them without them having any say in the matter.
A financially independent woman doesn't mean that she can put the entire burden of finances on the man as and when she pleases. She can't force a man to earn if she thinks she can't be forced to do so. Sadly for those who make demands like this call demand by others "Oppression"
#Odisha
A women home guard lost both her legs in a failed suicide bid. She was allegedly tortured by an IAS officer's wife at whose residence she was posted.
Editorial: Women in uniform, of any level or rank, must have the same respect that any men in uniform get.
That's what men are doing for centuries. Ridiculous when people give a "what if" scenario about things that are already stark reality. "If I do this..." when that's all you've been doing.
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At one hand there is Taliban which in the name of Islam has reduced women to furniture, OTOH meet Nishat Hussain, a Muslim woman Qazi who adheres to her faith and still fights patriarchy in Muslim commuinity.
#IslamicFeminism
#IslamicPatriarchy
According to latest NCRB data, Crimes against women in India increased by 15%. Of all the crimes, cruelty by husband and his relatives is at the top. Family is the biggest site of violence in for Indian women. Why should they put up with this family structure?
Be it Muslim, Dalits, Hindutva, BJP or Cong, nobody gets angry and outrages because of the violence alone. They get emotional when perpetrator is from another community. And they pretend to "care" about women issues when they can target another community on basis of identity.
Abhilasha, stop. Save your energy for the live chat. Call it debate, chat whatever, the point is to talk instead of typing, have a bit more personalized interaction, and understand what each is saying. Let's find a suitable date. Will follow, pls DM.
@WomenNewsIN
@SayaniBh
@sanjukta
The world 50 - 100 years ago simply wasn’t this “convenient”, there was limited power, running water, medical care, in 1920 life expectancy was 40 years means most of us keyboard warrioring now coz we got 40 extra years to live & nothing to do, would have one leg in the grave.
What more and less you are talking about? Data is clear, that women who work outside also do the household chores. But 90% of men or even more, do not do any household jobs at all. Millions of women carry their own luggage but not even 10% of men make that tea and that dinner.
@WomenNewsIN
Thats an absolute lie & joke. Yes women do physical labor. Its a fact. But men do more physical labor. And that is also a fact.
And its good. Its not gender stereotype. Its gender common sense.
Those taking such decisions have never read one word of feminist theories and occupy powerful positions decide things for women. It's why i said in another thread that a degree in Women's Studies should be mandatory to hold positions where you influence gender policies.
1/n
It is nothing short of tragic that 12 years after Why Loiter? was published we find that a state in India restricts coaching classes for women after 8 pm
The Uttar Pradesh government directs private coaching institutes not to conduct late-evening classes for female students
@AbhilashaPurwar
Problem with women like
@AbhilashaPurwar
is that they themselves are weak and male dependent, can't carry own luggage, can't travel alone, so they diss women who are strong enough to do it all alone.
The piece on Women dancing at G20 summit has angered right wing. But why? They get angry if women in Sabyasachi ads or Fab India ads do not wear bindi but dancing on British pop Indi pop fusion is our culture? Aarti ki thali and kum kum is our way of welcoming guests, is it not?
A lot of feminist researchers are trying to understand why right wing nationalist women are also anti-feminism and hold deeply patriarchal regressive ideas? Why RW women are against women's abortion rights, why they want women to stay within domestic roles, serve their husbands.
Career options are limited because of poor eduction and human resource policies. Because they still don't know that a Women's Studies background should be compulsory for public/private/ministerial/civil society positions where you'll be responsible for women and gender issues.
@Questiona1234
@ANI
Please control men. Stop pretending rapes are happening due to OTT platforms because if that was the case 50% of India would be rapist. That's not happening. Which means if men want, they can control. They can learn how not to be rapist. So teach them that. Raise better sons.
@zPopzz
@CartoonistSan
@timesofindia
Where's the Hindu hate here? One can easily bet that people in that Ujjain locality do rituals like Kanya Puja Gau Puja, they make big show of cow worship, Goddess worship but can't help a bleeding girl. What's wrong in exposing society's shameless hypocrisy?
Women in Iceland gone on strike against unequal pay and gender based violence. Just imagine what will happen if all women in India went on strike. Millions of men will go hungry wear dirty clothes because they are dependent on women's unpaid labor of cooking and cleaning.
Over 20 lakh dowry paid to get daughter married to a rich guy working in Merchant Navy. Dowry demands continued even after wedding. Now she has filed for divorce. When you take so much in dowry of course they'll file 498A to recover the money. Why men continue to take dowry?
The Time Use in India – 2019 report by National Sample Survey Office under Ministry of Statistics shows that women do overwhelmingly more unpaid work in the house such as cooking, cleaning, taking care of babies compared to men. Read more:
You don't become feminist randomly. You need to read, learn what is feminism all about. Learn women history, feminist theories. So much work to be done.
No, biology was an excuse. Women didn't need systems of marriage and family, didn't need men to impregnate them at will, didn't have to move to husband's place, take husband's name; property, lineage didn't have to go through husband - these are patriarchy, not biology.
@WomenNewsIN
God woman go read what I just wrote, so you can actually come for a honorable debate & not just another baseless liberal meltdown.
Biology designed the society such that women stayed at home (coz that was optimal) & men worked.
Why zoom, there is twitter’s clubhouse version
Why we have the motto, "Journalism Meets Feminism?" Because a journalist's main job is to question government. Report on people's issues and ask govt what they are doing to resolve issues. We at Women News report on women's issues and question
@NCWIndia
,
@MinistryWCD
.
Please control men. Stop pretending rapes are happening due to OTT platforms because if that was the case 50% of India would be rapist. That's not happening. Which means if men want, they can control. They can learn how not to be rapist. So teach them that. Raise better sons.
So
@AbhilashaPurwar
yes, next time pls ask women to carry your luggage. They will be just fine. 80% of female labour force is in agriculture, rest in urban construction sites. Women can't do physical labour is the biggest lie peddled by patriarchy and misogynists like you.
SET THE REMINDER NOW
Feminist Space. Feminist Talking
@Paromitabardolo
and
@sanjukta
will talk about men's favourite sport Mansplaining. Deepika Kisses Shah Rukh, men start explaining. Woman seen smoking in public, men explaining. Why so insecure?
Truth is this happens routinely in India, has been happening for hundreds of years. Woman are publicly humiliated, flogged, even raped as a punishment for their so called "dalliance" and "deviant" behaviour. It happens by parents/in-laws/on order of village panchayats.
Cheating, extra marital affairs, high divorce rate are all two people's personal matters. They occur more when women realise their rights, and stop taking things lying down. Ismein aapko kyun mirchi lagi? Go live your life, and let others live their's.
#BeLiberal
Karnataka govt launched the
#GruhalakshmiScheme
offering a monthly assistance of Rs 2,000 to about 1.1 crore women who are heads of their households. (PTI)
Editorial: Though derided as "freebies" direct cash transfer is a strong step in alleviating poverty, as per research.
There is a raging debate on groups of women seen dancing at the airport to receive G20 Summit guests. Here's a Opinion piece from our Editor.
Dance as art form is not the issue. But for someone with decision making power to think it was ok is.
Right wing women break gender stereotype with their violent hateful speeches, rioting, terrorizing minorities etc. which is far from the image of docile wife sitting at husband's feet. But they don't understand women's rights, history of oppression. Follow patriarchal notions.
We presume that activists, intellectuals, feminists etc. criticize dominant forces and authoritarian regimes because they care about people's rights and want to build better society. But their silence on certain issues, particularly in community patriarchy, raises doubts.
We live in a highly patriarchal society. I hv done around 200 kidney transplants. My findings in my series:
1. Around 80-90 % of Kidney Transplant Recipients are men. When a woman develops ESRD( Kidney Failure), it is very hard to find a Kidney donor, among the relatives.
2. In
Welcome to all the new followers. Thanks to all the men for joining a space which is about women's issues and not thinking, 'is mein mera kya hai'.
Women's issues are everybody's issues. Women's issues are national 🇮🇳 issues.
Thank you
@RiaRevealed
, for your support. 🙏
We invite you for a live chat with
@sanjukta
on Women News YouTube channel. Let's see if you can face a feminist, say the same thing live on camera and present your arguments for ending women empowerment debate by denying jobs to women. Let us know if you have the guts.
When you employ a man, you don't just feed one mouth but two, considering he marries an unemployed woman. But when you employ a woman you only feed one mouth because women will never marry an unemployed man.
Let this sink in and let this close all the women empowerment debates.
Every random person these days are telling us what feminism is all about without having any knowledge of feminist theory or Women Studies (WS). The techies, MBAs are so ignorant they don't even know WS is a subject you can study. We have to make one video on this.
Mainstream media has failed the women. They do not question those in power unless there is Hindu-Muslim, Dalit-UC, BJP-Cong angle. But Women News will hold those in power responsible and seek answers. We will keep calling WCD and NCW asking what have they done in their tenure?
Creation of patriarchy happened when humans started agriculture. Concept of property, my land, my crop emerged. Fruits of my labour should go to my children but how to be sure who are my children? By controlling woman's movement, keeping her inside under watch all time.
@AbhilashaPurwar
@Aryan90007319
@WomenNewsIN
Patriarchy have to be seen historically. Women have been treated violently. Patriarchy just gave them a protection from invaders etc. The feeling of being caged is individual. However women can work in most sector. To say it's animosity will be going a bit too much. Love exists.
RSS-BJP is a patriarchal hegemonic party which worships masculine power, authority, dominance, fear, violence as ideals. Women don't fit in BJP's imagination of the public face of nation. Public space is for men and women's place is at home as care givers, nurturers.
Yogi Adityanath on Women’s Reservation Bill in 2010 to Hindustan Times:
“There is no question of a whip in favour of the Bill; we are public representatives and not bonded labour”
“We will push for a discussion in the party with all MPs on the women’s quota issue, as was decided
Once in a while when men take care of the babies, society will call it "baby sitting" "pitching in" "contributing to household work" while women do it as their gender roles 24×7×365×entire life. Women need liberation from gender roles NOW.
Dear
@IndianExpress
looking after your own child is NOT babysitting. For crying out loud, if a women athlete were looking after her child for most of the day, would you be writing this headline?
Everyday RW claims to be better than Muslims. They claim women have no rights in Islam. Hinduism is better cos we worship women as Goddess. So, naturally, when a
#UjjainHorror
happens, we point out the hypocrisy. And suddenly RW hides behind, "why not talking about Muslims"?
Woman in Raj stripped naked and paraded allegedly by husband and in-laws. That's the headline. Media and public will add that it's because she had an affair. But "why" is not relevant. Husband/in-laws/parents - nobody has a right to attack a woman for any of her "wrongs".
after killing the wife, even when her body was lying in bathroom floor, this killer husband was in cold blood and showing the ground floor of the bunglow to a property broker for sale purpose. He wanted to sale the bunglow and took advance 50 lakh. She objected, he killed her.
Kajal Hindustani got arrested for anti-Muslim hate speeches. Looks like she is out on bail. Politically ambitious women of right-wing give hate speeches as a political gig, and then carry on like any other modern urban person. Not bad actually. It's a career choice.
UP, 23 year old pregnant woman raped by father-in-law. When she informed her husband, he beat her up and threw her out saying she is now his mother, so they can't be married anymore.
Cruelty by
Husband or His Relatives is the no.1 crime against women in India: NCRB
Two cases of
#MuslimWomen
being harassed by Islamist groups have been reported, from Gujarat and Karntaka. Mostly reported by right wing media such as Organizer, Swarajya, Op India. New Indian Express reported the KA case.
#Womenandreligion
After criticizing the Congress govt in Karnataka's move to offer free bus rides to women, BJP govts in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, UP, Haryana all offer free bus rides to women on Raksha Bandhan. Also on offer are gas cylinders and other tokenism.
#Politics
#WomenNews
Justice in 2017
#honourkilling
case from Uttarakhand. Court finds Mithlesh Devi, her son Saurabh and neighbour Sunil guilty of murdering daughter Shivani for her relationship and intended marriage with Ajay Singh. All 3 jailed for life.
"बहुत आसान होता है ये कह देना के Talibanisation हो रहा है, लेकिन Taliban सीधा गोली मार देते है, औरत को नंगा करके गाओं में घुमा के humiliate नहीं करते, जो मणिपुर में हुआ।"
~Coming up, a freewheeling chat with activist Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, on feminism being Muslim in India.
Feminism faces strong backlash from right-wing. They deny there is anything called patriarchy or blame it on "invasion" aka Muslims. Patriarchy started at dawn of civilization long before any invasion. It's about men controlling women's reproductive potential, to control property
Apart from the biological fact that male and female species have sex to reproduce, everything else - heterosexual love, marriage, family, monogamy are human constructs. For thousands of years society indoctrinated/violently forced children to follow them.
Noted eco feminist Vandana Shiva speaks about women's equal right to owning farm land. 80% of working women in India are employed in agriculture but only 13% own the land they work on. Read the interview on
@frontline_india
The 1800 members strong Green Army was started by BHU's Ravi Mishra with a mission to help women. The women wear green saree with long pallu and carry a stick. They follow the popular Gulabi Gang but their method is different, they claim. Read more in The Print.
Indian high rises do not have laundromats. Why? Cos it's assumed that every home has a woman (wife/domestic help) who will do it, either by machine or manually, put it out in sun, pick, fold etc. Gender perspectives aren't included in
#architecture
.
I’m equally sure that no laundromat would have been provided at this matchbox housing in the middle of our beautiful delhi for so many apartments. Built for babus, built by babus. How can we ever progress with this mindset.
As we were just saying. Every random person is telling us what Feminism is all about without any knowledge. Here's another. Profile: engineer. Bet never even heard of feminist theory and women studies.
Two separate High Court verdicts lead to interesting situation for Hindu-Muslim couples. Seems, they can live together without hassles. But if they marry, legal complications kick in. Both cases, Muslim woman's family started harassment.
Read more: