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By Durba Ghosh They may be derogatorily labelled as 'Bangladeshis' or 'miyas', but the descendants of Bengali Muslims of erstwhile East Bengal origin in Assam, particularly the women of the community, have firmly asserted their democratic rights in the recently...
By Swarna Rajagopalan (guest post) Over the years, I have come to bristle and splutter when asked to justify the importance of including more and more women — an equal number, even — in electoral nominations and political appointments. It’s 2021, I want to snap, and...
By Padmaja Shaw Preliminary data from the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2020 indicates that the presence of women in Indian news media has declined – albeit with some exceptions – over the past decade. The overall presence of women as news subjects across...
By Ammu Joseph "Not BJP, not Congress: Women voters are real winners today," claimed the headline of a December 12 article that highlights the fact that female voters outnumbered men in a significant number of constituencies in the recent elections to the state...
By Ammu Joseph It looks as if it’s not just Bengaluru, but Karnataka as a whole, that’s unfriendly towards women in politics. According to this report in The Economic Times (also published in the Bangalore edition of The Times of India on 17 April, p2), “On an...
On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2018, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia Pacific, launched a campaign to improve women’s leadership in journalists’ unions and associations in the region. The IFJ noted that though the number of women working in the media continues to grow, they are still not leading in journalist unions. Recent research revealed that on average, only 28 percent of members in media unions and associations in the Asia Pacific are women; and the presence of women in executive committees and decision-making bodies is only 22 percent.
With elections to the Legislative Assemblies in four states (Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland and Karnataka) coming up soon, the Network of Women in Media, India, in association with 101 Reporters, a pan-India network of grassroots reporters, organised a workshop on gender inclusivity during election coverage.
Forget 33 percent, the women who were in the cabinet didn't get to hold weighty portfolios. "Except for a few politicians, most elected female representatives have a limited or marginal role in important discussions within their political party or within the national...
Switching on the television to follow election result coverage, I find myself searching for women panelists. Surfing channels at around 9 a.m., I saw: One on NDTV in a panel of about six people; One on CNN-IBN in a larger panel; Two out of eight on Headlines Today;...