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What is the point of giving speeches on the importance of women in the workforce on one day, when what we really need at work is unacknowledged?
Every year, as Women’s Day comes around, I am reminded of all the gaps that need to be filled to make women find their power in the workforce.
Celebrating Women’s Day especially in corporates is tokenism max.
Getting a candle or a box of chocolates on one day of the year does not make us feel respected or equal.
What is the point of giving speeches on the importance of women in the workforce on one day, when the gender differences in needing and taking of leaves go unacknowledged?
What is the point of celebrating Women’s Day every year, when you hold back our promotion after we get married – lest we get pregnant?
We don’t want to order tea for everyone during a meeting, just because we are the only women in the room.
We don’t want to be told we are sensitive because our eyes welled up on being screamed at. Crying is not gender specific and should be absolutely normalised – even in the workplace.
Why have sexual harassment cells if they have no powers to prevent everyday casual sexism?
Here’s what women in the workforce want.
Today as I wish all the women around me a Happy Women’s Day, I also wish that women support women every day. To all the wonderful women I know, you have my support for sure!
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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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