It is the expectation of society that women wear a wedding ring if they are married and that they should not be wearing this ring if they are not married. I argue that this expectation of women to wear a ring or any kind of marital adornments is unfair and should be revoked.

The history of the tradition

The tradition of women wearing a wedding…[Read more]

When people grow up in a Muslim household from a young age, they are made aware of the various codes of conduct that they must follow. In the Quran, many values and traditions are mentioned which guide the behaviour of an individual in a society.. all these religious doctrines are to be accepted and respected. In practice, many of these doctrines…[Read more]

Language is a beautiful thing and from the wisdom of cognitive scientists, language shapes us early, broadly and guides reasoning. So when it comes to speaking about people and their identities specifically we should make sure we are being respectful and empathetic. Though language can shape how we think we can also shape language because it is a…[Read more]

Gender inequality is a profound injustice. It keeps millions of women around the world in poverty. Women are one half of the world’s population yet we are often denied equal access to health, education and political and economic participation. It’s first and foremost a rights issue but gender inequality also significantly damages a country’s…[Read more]

Feminism in India is a set of movements that redefined, re-established and defended equal political, economic, and social rights and opportunities for women in India. The history of feminism in India is divided into three phases namely,
1. The first phase: It began in the mid 19th century. It was initiated when reformists began to speak in favour…[Read more]

She is on your mugs, she is on your tote bags, she is even on the back of our Jean jackets. Frida Kahlo went from being a radical self-portrait artist to a product sold and consumed all over the world. This tells us a lot about the consumerization of feminism. Kahlo was a Mexican artist known around the globe for her provocative self-portraits.…[Read more]

As much as feminism is a movement that opens women to choices that are taken away from them by the patriarchy. We often see a misunderstanding between choices and fear of politics. Giving women their reproductive choices is a part of feminism. Practising feminism that isn’t intersectional is a fear of politics. Choice feminism offers a worldview…[Read more]

Cyberfeminism is used to describe the philosophies of a contemporary feminist community whose interests are cyberspace, the internet and technology. The term was coined in early 1990 to describe the work of feminists interested in theorizing, criticising and exploiting the Internet, cyberspace and new media technologies in general. Cyberfeminism…[Read more]

Sexism exists everywhere, it exists in the way we speak the words we write, the images we create, And the way we act. It impacts women differently and to a greater extent than men. It’s around us from childhood with boys and courage to run, jump and be active and girls pic socialized into passive pleasing ladylike behaviour. It hits out at us from…[Read more]

Worshipping women is a kind of misogyny because it’s imagined that women are beautiful, fragile things that one can possess. It turns out that women are not things. They are people in precisely the same way that you are a person and in the progressive era, they demanded to be full citizens of the United States. In short, women don’t exist to be…[Read more]

The core ideas of second-wave feminism were rejected. The core idea of second-wave feminism is that gendered oppression is common to all women. The question arose if second-wave feminism represented the common grievance of women worldwide. Did it represent the interest of all women? The third wave feminism found the problems in second-wave…[Read more]

First-wave feminists believed that political equality will bring social, economic, and educational equality. But this assumption was proven wrong later. There were and educational inequalities. Therefore, the need for second-wave feminism arose. The first wave of feminism was launched by the women who were united at the one page or group. But the…[Read more]

Let’s start with the definition of feminism. Feminism is a movement that aims at defending, establishing and providing equal social, political and economic rights for women as well as equal opportunities for them. A movement begins when there comes a gap in the answers to two questions:
1. What ought to be?
2. What is?
The feminism movement began…[Read more]

If we were to judge people based on the things that post on Instagram on Twitter we would have an inaccurate idea of what their life is like. Instagram is not always what it seems. For decades, Sesame Street has taught us to relate to find commonality to be accepting, encouraging and inclusive. These are word building blocks for our youth relating…[Read more]

Many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labour. Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil. Assembly lines were engineer to replace inconsistent human handiwork with machine perfection. Computers were programmed to swap out an error-prone, inconsistent human calculation…[Read more]

Gender role stereotypes and when a person is expected to act in a certain way based on society’s expectations related to their gender. Traditional gender roles go back to a time when there were clear and unequal rules about how people were expected to act based on their gender. People who were born male when expected to be strong and aggressive,…[Read more]

Acid attacks are some of the most brutal and horrible assaults that a person can endure. And sadly in India, it’s all too common. From small towns to big cities the rise in the attacks have been steadily increasing in recent years. And while records show a certain number of reported attacks, the grim reality is that the number is much, much…[Read more]

A stereotype is an over-generalized belief or thinking about a particular person, a group of people or a situation. Even if you don’t think about it you are constantly creating mental models and stereotyping the world around you. Our stereotypes are created by our experiences. On one side it’s good as it enables us to quickly make a decision, on…[Read more]

The gender bias in numerous Indian hostels is unapologetic. The Hindu college in Delhi was all over the news a few years back because of its sexist hostel norms. The rules listed included to dress decently, no visitors were to be allowed without prior permission, only one night out in the whole month and provision for random checks by wardens.…[Read more]

Let’s face it, we all are biased. There is no need to get defensive. We are built to be biased. The natural tendency to perceive things differently develops shortcuts. That robin is these shortcuts when applied to people can result in bias. How do we avoid unconscious bias to build a better society? Behavioural design offers a new solution to…[Read more]