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Women’s Farm Employment, Decision-making and Sources of Irrigation

Vol. 58, Issue No. 3, 21 Jan, 2023
Indranil De

Irrigation is one of the chief determinants of crop yields and sustainable agriculture. However, two surveys conducted among farmers and women in two regions of Uttar Pradesh highlight how irrigation sources impact women’s lives. The results reveal that the expansion of less important/used irrigation sources and water purchase have a positive impact on women’s participation in economic activities and empowerment. Thus, policies can be designed to improve the lesser-used irrigation sources, which, in turn, can contribute to women’s empowerment.

Two Steps Up and One Step Down and a Few in Between

Vol. 57, Issue No. 48, 26 Nov, 2022
Rani Rohini Raman

Mutinies for Equality: Contemporary Developments in Law and Gender in India edited by Tanja Herklotz and Siddharth Peter de Souza, Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp vii+295, `989 (hardbound).

Brave New World

Vol. 57, Issue No. 47, 19 Nov, 2022
Arshia Sattar

Citizens of Everywhere: Indian Women, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism 1920–1952 by Rosalind Parr, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp 198, price not mentioned (hardback).

Money or Medium?

Vol. 56, Issue No. 17, 24 Apr, 2021
Namira Samir

Women’s empowerment in the informal economy is mainly understood through a solution-based approach: improving access to finance or giving informal women workers avenues to express and acquire their political voice. Yet, little consideration is given to the root cause of their precarity, which, in the end, disempowers the very tools that can secure women’s rights in the informal economy.

 

Rights and Wrongs of Anti-conversion Law(s)

Vol. 56, Issue No. 1, 02 Jan, 2021
Saumya Uma, Niti Saxena

The legal ramifications of the recently promulgated Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 are examined by juxtaposing popular perceptions of inter-religious marriages as “dishonourable” to the concerned families and communities, with a feminist perspective of women’s agency and exercise of choice in marriage. The key to preventing the phenomenon of conversion for marriage lies not in enacting draconian legislations that arm the state machinery with arbitrary powers, but in streamlining and simplifying procedures under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 that allow for inter-religious marriages without religious conversion of either person.

‘Love Jihad’ is an Islamophobic Campaign: Why Honour is about Controlling Women's Bodies

In light of the renewed demand from certain sections of society to enact laws against religious conversions for marriage, this reading list analyses the harmful impact of the narrative of “love jihad” on Hindu women.

Provincialising Gender Justice

Vol. 55, Issue No. 42, 17 Oct, 2020
Gopal Guru

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COVID-19 and Women Informal Sector Workers in India

Vol. 55, Issue No. 35, 29 Aug, 2020
Shiney Chakraborty

The precarious nature of employment of women informal workers is examined using data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (2018–19). To capture the gendered experiences of informal workers during the lockdown period, data from a series of rapid assessment studies is used. It was found that the unequal gendered division of domestic chores existed even before the onset of the pandemic, but the COVID-19- induced lockdowns have further worsened the situation. In terms of paid employment, women tend to work in risky, hazardous and stigmatised jobs as front-line health workers, waste-pickers, domestic workers, but do not receive the minimum wages as specified by the government.

Research Radio Ep 1: What Interventions are Most Effective to Address Domestic Violence?

In this episode, we speak to Shireen J Jejeebhoy and K G Santhya about the experiences of women who have experienced domestic violence, and the role of crises centres in Bihar.

Do Courts Rely on Stereotypes Instead of Legal Frameworks in Cases of Sexual Harassment?

Vol. 54, Issue No. 44, 09 Nov, 2019
The fear of women filing false complaints continues to be one of the principal oppositions to the existence of the law against sexual harassment. Through an analysis of a 2019 high court judgment that ruled a complaint to be “false,” the author argues that courts often do not differentiate between a complaint filed with “malicious intent” and one where the complaint could not be supported with evidence permissible to the court.

Land Tax, Reservation for Women and Customary Law in Nagaland

Vol. 52, Issue No. 9, 04 Mar, 2017
Jelle J P Wouters

Can elected urban local bodies in Nagaland levy taxes on land and buildings when Naga lands and its resources are, under Article 371A of the Constitution, the domain of customary bodies and laws? Should women be allotted 33% reservation of electoral seats in these urban local bodies, as sanctioned by the Constitution, when customary institutionsand practices did not envision political leadership for women? These are divisive questions in Nagaland. A socio-historical background is offered.

A Nikahnama for Muslim Women

Vol. 43, Issue No. 12-13, 22 Mar, 2008

A new Muslim body announces a "shariat nikahnama" that is sensitive to women's concerns.

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