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Sexual harassment in media workplaces:  Ammu Joseph’s book examines shared experiences across time

Sexual harassment in media workplaces: Ammu Joseph’s book examines shared experiences across time

MeToo logo by Manjula PDisclosure after disclosure by Indian women over the past week have brought to public attention for the first time the pervasiveness of sexual harassment in Indian media workplaces. The experiences shared by women journalists across the country 20 years ago and recorded in Ammu Joseph’s book, Making News: Women in Journalism, first published in 2000, establish that the existence of the problem has been known for a long time, as have some of the names now tumbling out of the closet.

The glass is always full effect?

The glass is always full effect?

“61 women in this Lok Sabha, highest ever” – headline in The Times of India, 17 May 2014. “The 16th Lok Sabha will have the highest number of women members at 61.  ‘This is the highest number of women members elected to the Lok Sabha in the history of the country,...