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Women's Web's choice of interesting stories from around the world this week.
Bawdy men, lewd numbers and unhealthy fixations make some of our reads for this week.
“Even in the world of allegedly genderless numbers, being female isn’t safe.” The dark side of math humor.
“The real impact of the male gaze, and objectification, and judgment, is about way more than beer commercials, Playboy pictorials, and who does and doesn’t have to pay her own bar tab.” A hard-hitting take on the objectification of the feminine body.
“No matter where you work, or how hard, when it comes to the second shift, ladies, we own it.” On equality and gender expectations.
Nandita Sengupta makes a case for gender-neutral guardianship when she asks “How can being named ahead of a man in a shared responsibility activity be viewed as empowerment?”
“The concept of fairness. Nothing to do with bending backwards to be fair to someone. But the unending struggle to appear “fair” to the world. In complexion, and not in spirit.” Suranga on the Indian obsession with white skin.
Inside Slave City captures the sordid lives of domestic help in India.
“She wrote not only about gender subjugation, but also about capitalist, racial and military suppression, searching for and critiquing sources of power and strength.” Remembering Adrienne Rich.
*Photo credit: Adrienne Rich from http://www.qotd.org/
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Children should be taught to aspire to be successful, but success doesn't have to mean an IIT admission only!
Imagine studying for 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 whole years for the JEE exam only to find out that there’s only a very, very slim chance of getting into an IIT. It is a fact widely acknowledged that the IIT-JEE is one of the toughest exams not just in India but in the whole world. Apart from IITs, the NITs and IIITs of India also accept the JEE scores for admission. There are said to be a total of 23 IITs, 31 NITs and 25 IIITs across the country.
Now, let’s first get a few facts about the IITs right. First, according to the NIRF rankings of 2023, only 17 IITs rank in the top 50 engineering colleges of India and only a few (around 5) IITs are in the list of the world’s top 100 engineering colleges. Second, the dropout rate of IIT-qualifying students stands at least at 20%, with reasons being cited ranging from academic pressure and unmanageable workload to caste discrimination and high levels of competition within the IIT.
So, it’s quite clear that the journey of making it through IIT is as challenging as the journey of getting into an IIT. Third and most important of all, the acceptance rate or the odds of getting into an IIT are below 3% which is a lot lower than the acceptance rate of highly and very highly ranked US universities. Four, getting into an IIT of one’s choice doesn’t mean one will also get into a branch of one’s preference at that IIT.
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