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Your favourite platform Women's Web is 13, and we're celebrating. Here is how you can be a part of our celebrations. Read to the end.
Turning 13 makes a person a teenager. Well, your favourite platform is 13 this year. A teenager. Read our story and on to the end to know how you can participate in the #13YrsOfWomensWeb celebrations.
In 2010, our Founder CEO Aparna Vedapuri Singh wrote this welcome article announcing Women’s Web to the world. In Aparna’s words, “a significantly large proportion of the online content aimed specifically at women, was either celebrity gossip or tips on how to lose weight or apply your make-up…”
But what about the ordinary thinking Indian woman who doesn’t want to be told what to do, and wants more?
And so, Women’s Web was conceptualised, to enable women to tell their own stories, an inclusive platform that embraces all identities as seen through various dimensions of marginalisation. We have now grown into India’s only digital platform that enables women @ work through content and community, with a mission to increase participation of Indian women in the paid workforce, by connecting millions of Indian women with the resources, tools and opportunities from enterprises.
Initially, writers came to the platform via word of mouth and some who were among the then blogging circles, and the team was tiny, just two of them – Aparna and Anne John, writer and editor extraordinaire.
In 2014, we went public, so to say. We opened the platform for crowdfunding and crowdsourcing of content – it was now that anyone who wanted to could sign up as a writer, and share their voice.
Over the years, we have now grown to these numbers:
It makes me happy that we have touched so many lives. At our events, I (and some other team members) have had women come up to us and share how Women’s Web has made a real, concrete difference in their lives, in some key way. And it feels good that we have had the privilege to be there for these women, in whatever way.
This year, we are 13, and we are celebrating #13YrsOfWomensWeb.
I invite you personally as the Senior Editor & Community Manager to share your stories of interaction with us, and stories of how we might have touched your lives.
Over the next 10 days, we will highlight the work of some of our top authors, who have really made a difference with their words, by sharing their voice on Women’s Web. This will be on the platform, as well as shoutouts on social media.
We will also share YOUR stories of how we have made a difference in your lives. So….
One – Send us your story in a few lines with your picture
Two – Send us a short video about how we have touched your life that we can share on our social media as a reel
Three – Share some of your favourite pieces from Women’s Web; either your own or of other authors on your social media. Use the hashtag #13YrsOfWomensWeb and tag us.
You can send your text or video story to [email protected] with #13YrsOfWomensWeb in the subject line.
If you tag us on social media, here are our handles – Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Threads. And if you haven’t yet, do follow us.
Let’s do this together!
In her role as the Senior Editor & Community Manager at Women's Web, Sandhya Renukamba is fortunate to associate every day with a whole lot of smart and fabulous writers and readers. A doctor read more...
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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