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Top stories from around the world this week focusing on crimes against women and annoying gender stereotypes!
This edition, we feature crimes against women and annoyingly persistent gender stereotypes.
Street harassment is not fun. And rightly too. For “why should we have our private space invaded by complete strangers, our bodies judged by men we have no interest in, our attention demanded for no good?”
“Describe myself as an entrepreneur? Impressive. Tell people that I work with moms? Cute.” – Jill Salzman shares her experience of affirming her parental status in professional spaces.
“The network of anonymity, invisibility and indifference creates a narrative which is less like an event and more like an abstract statistic.” A pertinent post on the chilling impersonality of gang rape.
A salon in France has been brightening the lives of disadvantaged women. Who said beauty was skin deep?
“Putting labels on terrible crimes against women, and affiliating a manifestation of abuse with one culture or community above any other doesn’t solve any problems.” Huma Quereshi on ethnicity and gender violence in the UK.
Ladylike – A chance incident has the writer wondering on gender assumptions.
In a thought-provoking post, the Goddess slams a society that squares a woman’s life as the sum of her financial worth or marital status.
*Photo credit: European Parliament (Used under the Creative Commons Attribution License)
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A nature lover, Usha Rajagopalan set up a trust called the Puttenahalli Neighbourhood Lake Improvement Trust (PNLIT) in June 2010.
While there is a glint of adventure in her eyes and a chuckle in her voice, there is also an unshakeable determination to achieve her goals which, she says, she has had from her college days. That’s Usha Rajagopalan, well-known Bengaluru-based author.
But these days her writing has taken a backseat as lake conservation has become her passion. The 67-year-old spirited senior citizen has made it her life’s mission to save the Puttenahalli Puttakare lake near her home.
Usha Rajagopalan likes calling herself a “lakeika” – a lake activist and a writer (‘lekhika’ in Hindi). “I am a writer by choice and lake conservationist by chance,” she says with a smile. Creative writing has always been a passion and she has published several books.
Who are these people who decide how a married woman should pose? Women do have a life and career outside their marriages!
Last week, a picture kept popping up on my FB feed, of a man and a woman standing close. I didn’t pay much attention, they looked like any other celebrity couple.
It was when I accidentally saw a derogatory term about the woman as the title of a post, that I read.
The woman in the pic was Dhanashree Verma, a Youtuber, choreographer, Jhalak Dikhla Ja participant and wife of cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal. The man was another choreographer, Pratik Utekar.
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