By Anjana Radhakrishnan:
Whether it’s ‘Mad Men’ or ‘Desperate Housewives’, you’d have noticed a recurring pattern in television and film — unhappy suburban housewives. And there’s a history to it, too. The 1950s and…
I am a Christian woman and go to a fairly, or rather, seemingly liberal church in New Delhi. It is oriented to community building, very warm and people-friendly with mutual respect for one…
The Companies Act 2013 mandated that a publicly listed company, which has five or more directors, must have at least one woman director. Even when surveys show that companies with better representation…
By Anonymous for Empathize This:
Emily Beaulieu and Kathleen Searles for The Conversation:
With the rise of Republican candidate Donald Trump, the demise of establishment candidates and a nomination contest between a self-proclaimed…
Jennifer Drake for The Conversation:
“You’re in engineering!?! Wow, you must be super-smart…”
It has been over 10 years since I was a first-year engineering undergraduate student; but…
“This old lady sawed away at my flesh for what felt like forever, and then when she was done, she threw that piece of flesh across the floor as if it was the most disgusting thing…
From housing the Monets and Helnweins of the digital age, to developing its own constantly-updating inside jokes (read: meme of the month), from committed pre-election debates to nuanced…
The concept of privilege was popularised by the women’s studies scholar Peggy McIntosh when she wrote the paper “White Privilege And Male Privilege: A Personal Account Of Coming To See Correspondences Through…
