India

‘Reluctant politician; Forever social worker’—Congress’ MP from chattisgarh Jyotsna Mahant

Congress’ lone female MP in Chhattisgarh, Jyotsna Mahant’s entry in politics is a result of nepotism. It’s the same as how several women who belong to political parties enter politics, but what is unique about her is...

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Patriarchy rules politics too, but these women want to change that

Forbes India

Urmila Singh has been helping women in Bihar nurture their political ambitions for over two decades now. She remembers how the 73rd and 74th amendments to the Constitution in 1993 had reserved a third of seats in all...

Thursday, September 03, 2020

How Sandhya Ray became the first female MP from Bhind in Madhya Pradesh

Coming from one of the most backward villages in the country, Sandhya Ray found the support in her progressive in-laws. They didn’t just support her with her studies but also motivated her to join politics. Ray, who...

Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Women don’t get opportunities very easily, they need to fight for them, says MP Diya Kumari

She The People

Diya Kumari is an Indian politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament from Rajsamand constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and served as a MLA from...

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

State Govt. doesn’t give anganwadi workers their due: Jharkhand MP Annapurna Devi

BJP’s Annapurna Devi became the Member of Parliament from Kodarma in Jharkhand in 2019 Lok Sabha election. A first-time MP, Devi isn’t new to politics. While she was forced to join politics with Rashtriya Janta Dal in...

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Time to prioritize women for transformative politics in new India

Sunday Guardian Live

By Rami Chhabra, Tsunami Tsunamo has crested, propelled by people power. As one who entered the media in the late 1950s—then eighteen, now eighty—I stand witness to a rare karmic moment in the nation’s life. It has come...

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Observer Research Foundation

Why increased activism has not translated into global women’s empowerment

By Pavit Kaur, India has hardly ever seen a purely women-driven movement where women have been the pioneers of a development and have stood up for a cause all by themselves. The second decade of 21st century has seen...

Thursday, July 09, 2020

Kathmandu: Empowering the voice of all women amid the pandemic

Kathmandu Post

Over in the past few months, incidences of women being oppressed have surfaced time and again. From women being subjected to gender-based violence to being abused and raped in quarantine centres to having an all-male...

Monday, June 15, 2020

Aunty, Didi, Bhabhi, Tai: How Indian women politicians are ‘domesticated’ so they fit in

The Suffrage, one of the most important milestones for the feminist movement, marked the beginning of women’s struggle to win the right to vote. Generations later, not only do women exercise voting rights, they have...

Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Seema T Gala Vapi

Seema T Gala Vapi is a Municipal Councillor from India. This interview was conducted in March 2019 in the margins of the sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) in New York

Friday, May 15, 2020

33 percent reservation for enhancing women participation in Indian politics

Change

By Shirin Shabana, After working for more than 30 years in diverse social settings I realized without women's participation we can't resolve conflict, we can't stop wars and more than that there won't be diverse and...

Monday, March 16, 2020

'Politics should be the lifestyle of every single person': Hajer Sharief

Forbes India

From wanting to become a surgeon, like the protagonists of her favourite TV series Grey’s Anatomy, to combating violent extremism by improving political participation of women and the youth, Hajer Sharief has come a...

Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Scientists probe link between poll promises and chances of women getting elected

Deccan Herald

Researchers are studying the association between the campaign promises made during state elections and the chances of women politicians getting elected in four districts of Bihar. The ongoing study, led by Indian-origin...

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

8 women candidates win Delhi Assembly election, all from AAP

India Today

As many as eight women candidates out of 79 have emerged as winners in the Delhi assembly Election 2020. All of them belong to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The results were announced on Tuesday. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)...

Friday, February 07, 2020

Delhi Assembly Election 2020: 132 centenarian voters, 110-year-woman oldest electorate

Hindustan Times

More than 130 centenarian voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the February 8 election and they will be treated “as a VIP” on the polling day, officials said on Thursday. Earlier, the Delhi Chief Electoral...

Wednesday, February 05, 2020

Delhi elections: Women voters want manifesto to address more than their safety issues

Deccan Herarld

While political parties are sweating it out to woo the electorate ahead of the Delhi Assembly polls, women voters in the national capital feel manifestos should offer more to them than limiting their demands to safety...

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Women in politics: Looking beyond reservations

Feminism in India

By Nancy D Cruz, As the US Presidential elections slowly sweeps your headlines, the amount of recognition the women in politics are getting is remarkable. After the 2018 historic rise of women parliamentarians in the...

Thompsom Reuters Foundation News

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Indian women lawmakers face abuse as global online violence rises

Nearly 100 Indian women politicians faced abuse, including rape and death threats, on social media during elections last year, with researchers on Thursday raising concerns over rising online violence against women...