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Recently, in January 2023, the Kerala government announced menstrual leave. Prior to this, in 1992, the Bihar government had declared 2 days of menstrual leave a month. In 2017, the Menstrual; benefits bill was introduced in the parliament for both public and private employees. While in 2020, Zomato introduced menstrual leaves for up to 10 days a year for its women and transgender employees…
While I applaud the efforts to provide some sort of respite for women, I wonder if it’s all worth the hype and if it takes attention from other pertinent issues plaguing women in our society.
I have the following reasons for my reservations:
Instead of medicalizing a normal biological-physiological phenomenon lets us instead,
All the above and more can bring about the needed respite for women. Like in others, in case of period leave too, women should have a choice. Normalizing the ‘period’ will go a long way in helping women.
Disclaimer: These are my views based on what I have been seeing and experiencing as a woman. It doesn’t intend to malign the gender or deprive a woman of her rights in any way.
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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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