COVID-19 is Backsliding India’s Progress on Reduction of Marital Violence- So what are we going to do about it?
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”61″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1595879805703{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Authored by: Anita Raj June 4, 2020[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2163″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1591296301436{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]In December 2019, I published a commentary in the Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR) highlighting the advancements India has made in the reduction of marital violence in the past decade, as indicated by […]
COVID-19 is Backsliding India’s Progress on Reduction of Marital Violence- So what are we going to do about it?
Authored by: Anita Raj In December 2019, I published a commentary in the Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR) highlighting the advancements India has made in the reduction of marital violence in the past decade, as indicated by data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS). At the same time, the commentary recommended continued progress […]
When social media is sexist: A call to action against online gender-based violence
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”61″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1595879468725{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Authored by: Nabamallika Dehingia This blog originally appeared on eTAG May 13, 2020[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”2139″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1595879390942{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]The Internet is not an equal space. The past few years have seen a rise in concerns about the disproportionate levels of abuse experienced by women in social […]
When social media is sexist: A call to action against online gender-based violence
Authored by: Nabamallika Dehingia The Internet is not an equal space. The past few years have seen a rise in concerns about the disproportionate levels of abuse experienced by women in social media platforms. From the United Nations to local non-profit organizations, entities across different geographies have actively acknowledged the pervasiveness of online gender-based violence. […]
Monitoring COVID-19’s Effects on Family Planning: What Should We Measure?
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”61″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1595880897067{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] By Anita Raj, Jay Silverman, Rebecka Lundgren, Nandita Bhan, and Meredith Pierce May 4, 2020 This blog originally appeared on Knowledge Success The rapid growth of the COVID-19 pandemic has raised global awareness of inadequacies in our public health systems across high-, middle-, and low-income nations. As health care systems […]
Social Distancing, Lockdown, and the Lived Experience of COVID-19 in India: How a Gender Lens May Disentangle Questions Raised by this Crisis
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”61″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1588200614363{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Authored by: Nandita Bhan and Anita Raj[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”1970″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1588200161151{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]In recent weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic shifted its sights towards low and middle-income countries (LMICs) as case reports from India, Nigeria, and Kenya, among others, indicate. This has put the already over-burdened health systems […]
Data on Gender Norms: Can We Find and Use What is Missing?
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1595879985015{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Authored by: Rebecka Lundgren, Meredith Pierce, Anita Raj, and Namratha Rao This blog originally appeared on ALiGN March 23, 2020 Gender norms – the social norms that define and restrict behaviours and opportunities for individuals based on their biological sex – are increasingly recognized as key drivers maintaining gender inequalities across […]
Measuring Agency
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The Intersection of Gender, Climate Change, & Rice Cultivation
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”60″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1588201135976{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Authored by: Alyssa Brodsky[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”1792″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1573770280095{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Over half of the world’s population is eating rice as their staple crop and although it is third to corn and wheat in quantity produced, rice cultivation accounts for 50% of all methane production from crops. Rice farming […]
Women’s Work: The Unpaid Labor Preventing Gender Equity
[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1564690851562{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Around the world, there is a perception of caregiving as “women’s work.” This work is unpaid labor, but at minimum wage it would make up between nine and eleven percent of the world’s GDP 1. In the third The State of the World’s Fathers: Unlocking the Power of Men’s Care, MenCare and Promundo […]
