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India’s recently released 2018 Economic Survey gushes about its economic progress. At the same time, it also notes the country’s 63 million “missing” women and 21 million “unwanted” girls. Why has India’s rising economic prosperity not delivered more gender equality?
How do you expect women to think of the police as an ally if there is such gross misconduct and abuse of power within the police force itself?
#sexualabuse #harassment
@manushi_chhillar - At the Indian Jute Industries Research Association in Kolkata where they are making biodegradable and low cost sanitary pads from jute which is easily available in the area. The women of the community have been trained to make these pads.
I also tried my hand at making one!
❌20 year old @manushi_chhillar is the sixth Indian woman to be crowned Miss World.
Hailing from Harayana, Manushi has studied medicine and wants to be a cardiac surgeon. She is also an ...advocate for menstrual hygiene and considers it of utmost importance.
#morepower #SheSaysIndia #lahukalagaan
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#beautywithapurpose - #regrann
Sexual abuse stays with a person, no matter the length of time, and abusers remain abusers. Apprehending and recognising perpetrators of sexual abuse should carry no statute of limitations.
#sexualabuse
When the New York Times broke a story about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley last summer, Precursor Ventures founding partner Charles Hudson blasted out an email to his portfolio companies letting them know behavior of that sort would not be tolerated.
Sexual abuse does not pay heed to age, race or sex and while society is making stringent efforts to bring cases of sexual abuse to light so we can turn victims into survivors, it cannot be denied that society can also be unintentionally biased towards women when it comes to abuse and harassment, often giving male survivors a backseat in the conversation.
Let's create and encourage a more supportive environment for all survivors to engage in a shame free discourse.
Deepika Padukone became the latest celeb to join team PadMan's challenge. Deepika posed with a sanitary napkin in her hand and posted a video. Yes!! This is so important, THANK YOU Deepika. #LahuKaLagaan
Bollywood has taken the brilliant initiative of posing and posting photos to social media with sanitary napkins in an effort to dispel the strong stigma surrounding menstruation and
periods, products for which the Indian Government still imposes an unnecessary tax on.
Today marks the date of the tragic loss of the space shuttle Columbia that killed seven astronauts. One of those, Kalpana Chawla, was the first Indian-born woman in space.
Over the course of her two missions, Chawla logged 30 days, 14 hours, and 54 minutes in space. After her first launch, she said, "When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
#Remember #morepower
SheSays India shared Humans of New York's post.
Applauding parents who raise independent and strong girls
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“I don’t want her to depend on anyone when she grows up. From the very beginning, I’ve been dependent. I barely left my home until the age of eighteen. I'd o...nly walk from school to home, and even then I’d be accompanied by my brother. I had no idea how to face the world outside. I never even learned to ride a bike. It’s going to be different for her. I told my husband: ‘Whatever she wants to do, I’m going to support her.’ And I’ve already gotten a bike for her. The moment she is old enough, I’m teaching her to ride a bike.”
(Jaipur, India)
Breast cancer ranks as the number one cancer among Indian females with rate as high as 25.8 per 100,000 women and mortality of 12.7 per 100,000 women, according to health ministry.
SheSays India shared a post.
Thank you, Maharashtra Government for taking women's issues seriously. Read post below, for a more detailed message from our founder, Trisha Shetty.
Great move by Maharashtra Government to pay heed to orders issued by the Hon'ble bench in Bombay High Court in SheSays India's PIL for tax-free menstrual hygien...e products and for women to have guaranteed access to sanitation and menstrual hygiene.
So far, in 2015-2016, for the State of Maharashtra a total budget of Rs.201.78 lakhs and Rs. 638 lakhs for the FY 2016-17 had been allocated under the NHM Scheme through which 44,10,073 Sanitary Napkins have been distributed in a total of only 6 districts in Maharashtra. Clearly the numbers attest that we needed a lot more Government intervention to make sanitary napkins affordable, and this move by the cabinet is a great step in the right direction.
Thank you, for listening to our collective voices and passing a gender-sensitive scheme.
In a shocking case of sexual abuse, an 8 month old baby girl was raped by her 28 year old cousin, who under the pretense of playing, inflicted major injuries to the victim's genitals.
https://m.timesofindia.com/…/8-mo…/articleshow/62701606.cms…
Kesha dedicated her performance of "Praying" at the Grammy's to the #MeToo movement while performing alongside other female vocalists
