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By Vatsla Srivastava Earlier this year, the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) joined forces with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to hold a series of powerful workshops for women journalists. This five-part program, held online in April and May 2024, aimed to...
By Sarita Mohanan Bhama Kerala may not have sent any women to Parliament but its women leaders are showing solidarity with one another It’s a bit of an ‘oops’ moment for the long line of academics who have showcased Kerala’s women-propelled welfare climb. The people...
By Shikha Mukerjee West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s handpicked contingent of newly elected women Members of Parliament (MPs), inspired by her, are ready to take the fight into the enemy camp. Of course, it will be easier in the 18th Lok Sabha, in which the...
By Jyoti Punwani Women participated enthusiastically in campaign meetings ahead of the fifth phase of the election in Maharashtra Women voters are, often, not as accessible as are men, and few reporters, myself included, seek them out. This time however, I didn’t have...
By Shikha Mukerjee Between hype and reality, the status of women is an expanse of hypocrisy in West Bengal. Abhijit Gangopadhyay, the newly hatched politician who is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Tamluk in East Medinipur, was asked by the Election...
By सुमिता जायसवाल बिहार के शिवहर लोकसभा चुनाव में दो महिला प्रत्याशियों के बीच मुख्य मुकाबला है। पहले भी शिवहर लोकसभा क्षेत्र के मतदाताओं ने पांच बार महिला नेत्रियों को चुनकर संसद में भेजा है। मगर आज भी चुनावों में जातिगत राजनीति ही हावी रहती है। भारत में आम चुनाव-...
By Sumita Jaiswal Though two women are in the fray and women leaders have been elected from the Sheohar Lok Sabha seat five times in the past, it is caste that is still pivotal in elections The country has crossed the halfway mark in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, with...
By Rituparna Chatterjee In 2018, at the peak of the #MeToo movement in India, Fairoz Khan, an official from the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party (INC), stepped down after a complaint of sexual harassment was filed against him. At the time, the Congress...
By Durba Ghosh The number of women candidates has been on the decline since 2014, but women voters are turning out in greater numbers than men. Promises galore have been made and benefits doled out but in Assam, even as women outnumber the male voters, the...
By C G Manjula The final voter turnout in the 14 parliamentary constituencies included in the first phase of polling in Karnataka on April 26 was 69.59%. Women voters outnumbered men in five of the 14 constituencies, according to the revised data shared by the...
In the run-up to the Lok Sabha Elections, when there were a host of burning issues like jobs and inflation to address, women became the target, victims and pawns, as rape tapes, misogynistic and sexist remarks brought political campaigns to new lows. The NWMI has...
By Rupa Mehta Despite headlines about progress in Gujarat, women are still not represented in Parliament of state legislature For Gujarat, “freedom” of women has been a matter of pride, evidenced by people often repeating, “Here, women can go to dance garbha during...
By Ninglun Hanghal With the Lok Sabha elections just a few days away, there have been reports of fresh violence in Manipur, with killings and attacks on villages in different parts of the state, especially along the borders and peripheries of districts. At the time of...