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These gender inequality comic strips will hit very closer to home. Especially in a country like India, where the gender gap is so huge.
Gender inequality is subtle and obvious. It exists in countries across the world in different ways. Sometimes we recognize it, for example when boys are preferred over girls. At other times, it can be harder to identify as gender inequality, like when men don’t get paternity leave to bond with their children. Identifying the ways in which it occurs is a crucial step to dismantling the hold it has on our lives. The cartoons below are a result of a competition held by UN Women along with the European Commission, in which students from across the world drew what gender inequality meant to them. You may find that a few of them hit close home for you.
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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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