POLICY CENTRE AND GENDER LAB

  Breaking the Barriers (or not?) By Anannya Gupta “Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise  I rise” A poem written by Maya Angelou in 1978 during the ending years of the second wave of Feminism which successfully campaigned for women’s right to work among others stands as true for today’s women as it did back then because although we seemed to have progressed on the surface, much has in reality gone far from what it was. This I seek to prove with two phenomena currently operational in the job industry especially against women in the workforce.  The First one has of late begun to get recognition. It being none other than Glass ceiling. This phrase was coined by Marilyn Loden at a 1978 Women's Exposition in reference to a panel discussion about women in the workforce. Like the term suggests, glass ceiling refers to an invisible barrie...

                             Gender Bias in Healthcare  By Reema Singh  The statement “Health is for All” is not true after all.  Stereotype-fueled gender disparities exist in all areas of life, and medicine is no exception. Gender bias affects multiple aspects of medical care, including diagnosis, treatment, research, and the interaction between healthcare professionals and patients. These disparities result in differences in health outcomes, such as life expectancy, mortality, and health status. Tackling these health disparities is crucial not only for promoting equity but also for enhancing the nation's overall health and economic well-being.  History of gender bias in India The history of gender bias in healthcare is rooted in a male-centric and male-dominated research approach, perpetuating stereotypes and assumptions ab...

                   Feminism and contemporary decolonization                                         - By Anasab Atiq   “Life in one subordinate realm of experience is imprinted by fictions and follies of the dominant realm.” Edward Said’s unfictionalized truism of colonial constructions is a first facade one faces when examining the social echelons that have been the products of colonization. While colonialism has been extensively studied in its montage of the dichotomy :metropole versus colony ,it was the idea of post colonialism that with all its chutzpah challenged the equality of the axis and gave precedence to the ideas, causality and correspondence of the colonized people and their indignity. With all its gender criticism and gaze, the theory of post coloniality and colonialism transcended into decoloniality and decolonizat...