Being paid for your work can make a huge difference to women's long-term financial well-being. That's just one of the reasons women's work matters.
Being paid for your work can make a huge difference to women’s long-term financial well-being. That’s just one of the reasons women’s work matters.
When we started Women’s Web a decade ago, one of the things that really set us apart from other women’s publications of the time, was our focus on women and careers.
We decided early on, that enlarging the opportunities for women to access paid work, do better at the work they access, and find ways to be financially independent, was an important part of our mission.
We have always been very clear, as a team, that this is not about the tired old homemakers versus working women debate. All women work, period, and all work whether at home or outside, is worthy of respect. The difference is that some are paid for it, and being paid for their work, can make all the difference to women’s long-term financial stability and well-being.
With these ideas in mind, we publish regularly on women entrepreneurs and their business ideas and experiences, career tips and strategies for women at work, as well as on resources and opportunities that we all find useful.
While we’ve published a significant body of work in the areas, and it’s super hard to choose, here are some posts that readers over the last 10 years have really found useful.
This piece on 3 home-based dress-making businesses, written by Melanie Lobo who interviewed these innovative entrepreneurs, has really stayed with people over time. It is regularly accessed by many who want to enter the tailoring & dress-making businesses.
For many of us jaded by Women’s Day celebrations that offer us red roses and a salon voucher, Kanupriya Kumar’s post on creative ways for workplaces & other groups to celebrate Women’s Day really hit the spot.
As digital career opportunities like blogging go mainstream, noted blogger Anupama Dalmia’s guide to making money through blogging was lapped up by our readers. From content quality to offering value-added services, she sums up pretty much everything a new blogger needs to know around monetization.
Many women do go back to studying, either to pick up additional qualifications, or complete academics that were disrupted by marriage or kids. However, studying after a gap can be hard. Aruna Chakraborty shares valuable tips to manage your studies after a break, from her own experience.
A post that really resonated with me, this one on continuing to work, by Jaishree, discusses all the reasons paid work makes a difference to women’s lives, beyond the financials.
When are you starting a family? Who will take care of your child when you are at work? In this hard-hitting post on inappropriate questions asked to women at job interviews, Anju Jayaram lays out why it’s time for companies to become more sensitive.
Misogyny at work is very real, but in this post, Akshata Ram encourages women to do their bit to combat it – whether by speaking up for yourself or refusing to be that woman at work who gets handed all the ‘mom’ tasks.
We go gaga over our mothers on Mother’s Day, but refuse to support a female colleague who may also be a mother. Anusha Singh in this post on truly enabling working mothers, encourages all of us to look at our own biases in the workplace.
It’s not easy to take negative feedback from a client, but entrepreneur Nikita J Vyas shares her own experience with hearing a client diss her work, and what it taught her.
Returning to work after a career break is not always easy, but some of India’s largest employers are making it more conducive for women. CP shares 12 return to work programs for women that anyone seeking a job should know about.
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Hiding family issues to patriarchy, 'House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths' throws a light on several problematic aspects within the typical Indian family.
The spine-chilling Burari deaths that happened in 2018 were brought to light again with the Netflix series ‘House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths’. The eleven member Chundawat family were like any other middle class family who had been living in the neighborhood for the last twenty years. They also had a grocery and plywood shop in the same vicinity.
Rajeev Tomar the policeman who entered the Burari house after the incident, stated that he had never seen a scene like this in his entire career and the visuals still haunt him. He was in shock to see the entire family hanging with their hands tied and their eyes covered. The documentary mentions that there were 11 diaries that were found with various other notes that further deepened the mystery surrounding the deaths.
‘I don’t wear the bindi anymore na, Didi! Neither the thread. He felt I am not wearing signs. Signs of being his. So he lost his temper.’ Preeti pressed the ice against her cheek and walked to the sink full of dishes.
She stared nervously at the bed again. It was not going to be a good day – the dark brown blotches, staring at her as they spread, still fluid, told her.
Women are the invisible workforce, always fading into the background, despite holding up the rest of the household on our backs. It’s time to be counted.
Women have been working throughout history, though Society has failed to recognise their contributions. (They have been contributing on the fields (owned by their fathers and husbands), on construction sites (with babies tied to their backs), or selling fish (often fished by their fathers and husbands, thereby acting as saleswomen and distributors).
You're not alone in feeling alone and cornered. As women, each of us must help support each other. Here are 8 things you can do to support another woman and create your own Sisterhood.
You’re not alone in feeling alone and cornered. As women, each of us can, and must, help support each other. Here are 8 things you can do to support another woman and create your own Sisterhood.
Women are women’s worst enemies.