मशहूर लेखक शिव कुमार बटालवी ने महिला शक्ति के लिए कहा है : नारी आपे नारायण है, हर मथे ते तीजी अख है, जो कुज किसे महान है रचिया, उस विच नारी दा हथ है। अर्थात हर महान पुरुष या स्त्री की सफलता के पीछे किसी ना किसी महिला का हाथ है।
These days it has become my intention to talk to each and every woman I come across in my life about the powerful value that using menstrual cups can add to our lives. Using sanitary napkins causes a lot of disadvantages to our sexual health as well as environment. The sanitary napkins not only cause irritation but also causes skin related issues in our private areas and many any other hygiene related issues in our body. Now-a-days we do have bio-degradable napkins as well, but the issue of dumping and disposal persists.
Women are coming together in a unique co-operative model in a small town in Himachal to prepare local food materials and sell it at a popular tourist destination – Jalori Pass.
विश्व में ज्ञान के स्तम्भ माने जाने वाले भारत रत्न बाबा साहब डॉ. भीम राव अंबेडकर को केवल दलितों के उद्धारक बता कर सर्वसमाज और महिलाओं को उनके जीवनपर्यंत दिए गए योगदान को सीमित किया जाता रहा है। परन्तु यदि हम उनके लिखे लेखों, भाषणों और जीवन में किए गए महान कार्यों और आंदोलनों को देखें तो पाएंगे कि बाबा साहब ने प्रत्येक भारतीय के उत्थान के लिए कार्य किया है और सबसे खास देश की आधी आबादी (महिलाओं) के उत्थान के लिए अनेकों महान कार्य और त्याग किए हैं।
The situation of widowed women in our country has not attracted the attention of policy-makers, may be because they are not a vocal group aggressively pressing for their rights and due place in the society. However, the situation of widows in our country is miserable on all the fronts – social, cultural and economic.
Domestic violence in India is an entrenched problem, and it has only been exacerbated in recent years. According to the National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) ‘Crime in India’ 2019 report, about 70% of women in India are victims of domestic violence. One such manifestation of this domestic violence is Marital rape. Marital rape, forcing your spouse into having sex without proper consent, is an unjust yet not uncommon way to degrade and disempower women.
Most women are forced into Prostitution due to Poverty: Women of the Bachhada community seemingly have a choice – either get married or take on sex-work as a profession. Those who choose the former, live a married household life and are not allowed to entertain any clients for sex work. But those whose family conditions leave them with no choice, opt for sex-work and then have practically zero chances of getting married later. In exceptional cases, where a sex worker does find a love interest and if the partner is willing to marry, then there is some hope for their marriage, but that too is usually inter-caste, as men from the same community do not take women who have opted for sex work as their legally wedded wives.
Above is the cliché that each one of us has mandatorily heard several times in our lifespan. There is no doubt that the dress we wear is layered with many gender-specific meanings and it is disheartening to note that like every other thing even our apparels are categorically stereotyped as traditional masculine and traditional feminine.
2014 में केंद्र में बनी नवी नवेली भाजपा सरकार ने बेटियों की भ्रूण हत्या रोकने और उनकी अच्छी शिक्षा के लिए जनवरी 2015 को हरियाणा के पानीपत शहर से “बेटी बचाओ बेटी पढ़ाओ” योजना का शुभारम्भ किया । सरकार की इस योजना का मुख्य लक्ष्य लिंगानुपात और लड़कियों की शिक्षा में सुधार करना रखा गया। और इसके लिए बॉलीवुड की मशहूर अभिनेत्री माधुरी दीक्षित को इस योजना को ब्रांड एंबेसडर लगाया गया।
Cinema has been one of the primary factors of what constitutes Indian culture for time immemorial. It’s one of the most beautiful forms of artistic expression and has remained consistent defining how to lead the ideal life, no short of the Indian dream. Whether it is the Karan Johar cinematic universe with designer clothing or the Sanjay Leela Bhansali architecture, separating fictitious beauty and fantasy from reality is often an alienated concept to the dreamy glints of the audience’s eyes but the magic starts to fade when we realize that cinema has been a breeding ground for plagues such as sexual objectification and harassment