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This Women’s Day Let’s Beat All Of These Double Standards In Indian Society
Dear society, please stop with your unsolicited opinions on how to live our lives already!
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An Open Letter To The Indian Society From United Daughters of the World
I have too many questions that you got to answer, but I shall not burden you or patriarchy; but you aren’t as strong as you show!
We raising our daughters to be strong women or letting society dictate terms?
Make her strong, dear parents, because sanskaar that society exalts might make her strive through the community but strength would help her fight this world!
Do We Realise How Prejudices Keep Us From Being Kinder To Others?
This isn’t just about religious prejudice, but our general tendency to be unaccepting of those who challenge our conventional upbringing in any way.
After 11 Daughters, Woman Gives Birth To Son
Many Indian parents can go any distance for having a boy even if it requires them to put unnecessary strain on the family’s resources. 42-year-old Bhagyamma from Kurkenahalli village in Karnataka recently gave birth to a male child after having 11 daughters earlier.
Only 5% Indian Women Have A Right To Choose Partners: Survey
A survey done by University of Maryland and the National Council of Applied Economic Research in 2004-2005 and 2011-2012 claimed that only 4.99% of Indian women are equipped with the power to choose their own partners. Shocking, isn’t it? But true. The Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) report surveyed over 34,000 urban and rural women, between the […]
Ugly Girls Have To Pay More Dowry, Says Maharashtra Textbook
“If a girl is ugly and handicapped, then it becomes very difficult for her to get married,” is one of the lines in a sociology textbook for the Maharashtra state board’s secondary and higher secondary students. The line comes in a chapter that is trying to define the root causes of ‘major social problems in India’.
