The misogynistic comments voters heard in the run-up to the Tamil Nadu election reflects a political culture that offers token support to women while denying them the basic right to dignity.
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NWMI Condemns Misogynistic Comments Made on Women’s Clothing by Telugu Film Actor Sivaji
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), strongly condemns the recent statements made by actor Sivaji during a public promotional event in Hyderabad. His remarks about women actors and women in general, specifically targeting their choice of clothing, were misogynistic, derogatory and deeply regressive.
Mamata Banerjee: More than India’s only woman chief minister
By Shikha Mukerjee For the BJP in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee is unidimensional—a failure as a woman chief minister. But evaluating a woman’s performance solely on the basis of her gender is discriminatory and disingenuous. The deliberate reduction of Mamata Banerjee...
Wall of Shame: Watch What You Say
By Editors As we begin the 10th anniversary edition of the NWMI's Gender, Media and Elections initiative, launched in April 2014, we bring you a watchlist that provides evidence of the need to continue to keep an eye on gender-related aspects of electoral politics....
A reimagination of news consumption
By Annie Philip The oral history project, ‘The Moment, As She Knows It’, helmed by community organiser Gather Sisters, pieces together stories of Covid-19 as seen through the eyes of women journalists across India, several of them NWMI members. The project, conducted...
Sexism on the political stage
By Kavitha Muralidharan It was a mask not many had expected to fall. In the course of heated campaigning in Chennai on a sultry March day, former Union Minister A Raja – often seen as the intellectual face of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), and perhaps rightly so...
Statement against sexist cartoon in Lakbima
Lakbima cartoon: a new low for misogyny in the print media We, the undersigned, condemn the sexist portrayal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a cartoon by Hasantha Wijenayake published in the Sri Lankan daily...