A few days ago, I was talking to a friend of mine who is a successful financial advisor. Our conversation began with the usual pleasantries – work, families and friends – and proceeded as always towards complaints. We always complain about the same things; about how tough it is to feel like a minority, about how men always treat us …
Category: Women in Worksplace
Only Beauty, No Brains: How Gender Stereotypes View Women?
Music has the ability to transcend boundaries and connect people and identities. It’s thus surprising that in the most melodious times, we manage to not only find disparities, but also the means of incessant debate and outrage. This month, popular singer Palash Sen belted out more than just music at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai’s college festival. A lot …
The Blatant Unfairness of Gender Testing
Sports, one would think, is a lot about fair play, team work, respect, acknowledgment and appreciation of the worthy. Everyone gets a chance to race for the ribbon in their own track and space. While you give it your all, you don’t hog, manipulate, or take away from other people’s achievements. At least, not in an ideal world. But in …
How Feasible is the Fight Against Sexual Harassment at Workplaces?
As journalism students, we are taught certain things that I believe could also be applied to any other field in which individuals are encouraged to follow their minds. We’re told that a true journalist follows a story fearlessly, takes a stand, believes in their fraternity and is an upright, ethical individual. These are important guidelines, in general, for a woman …
Successful Women Do Things Differently – Breaking Myths with Successful Women
Women today are expected to juggle home, family, relationships, career and work. To do this they need to achieve a perfect balance between home and work without letting either take a backseat! This can build on a lot of pressure, especially with a competitive work environment and compromised time at home and both areas of life demanding very high standards …
Responsibility and Rationality: The Need for Caution within Peer Groups
It’s sad that the world today has had to compel its females to turn themselves into this over cautious, on the edge species. Because irrespective of whether one is on the streets or at a party, there is always the need to look out for oneself. And that is perhaps ironically what many of us need to spell out a …
Violence Against Women is not his/her problem alone, it’s OUR problem!
WHO says ‘Violence against women can and should be Prevented’ (WHO 2013 Report) We regularly hear and read about acts of violence against women (VAW) and many times turn a blind eye to the atrocities thinking something like this happens only amongst communities which are either economically challenged or less educated and not in our neighborhoods. This is a misconception! …
The Aftermath: How difficult it is to ‘Deal’ with Rape
A lot of us talk about how one should ‘deal’ with rape. That it’s traumatizing and one requires courage, strength, some sort of a headlong response and the ability to not give up and make sure justice is sought. What we don’t realize is how easy it is to only say all this. What a rape victim goes through, we …