Essays about: "women in new India"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words women in new India.

  1. 1. Changing the Gendered Mindset - A Qualitative Study on Engaging Young Men in Mumbai to Achieve Gender Equality

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

    Author : Petronella Olsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Changing mindsets; Gender equality; India; Men Against Violence and Abuse; Patriarchy; Socialization;

    Abstract : As gender-based discrimination and violence against women continues to be a critical human rights issue across the world there is a growing demand of engaging men in transforming the relations, norms and the inequal social structures. Even though there are many laws and policies in place to protect women’s rights they are poorly implemented due to the fact that society and social institutions do not fundamentally support them. READ MORE

  3. 2. Frames in a social movement for safe public spaces : Problems meeting new solutions

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : David Karlström; [2017]
    Keywords : safe public spaces; social movement; frames; women;

    Abstract : Safety in public spaces has become an issue of increased concern and attention in India, after incidents of sexual harassment and violence against women. The need for safe public spaces was formulated in the civil society in New Delhi and can be described as a social movement. READ MORE

  4. 3. I am still unlearning it : A qualitative study of how Indian journalists perceive their reality from a gender perspective

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ)

    Author : Lisa Andreasson; Johanna Olsson Jönsson; [2016]
    Keywords : India; New Delhi; Bangalore; Media; Journalism; Newspapers; Agenda setting; Structuration theory; Performativity; Intersectionality; Equality; Giddens; Butler; Media ethnography; Qualitative interviews; Feminist media theory.;

    Abstract : India experienced huge media coverage from all over the world associated with the Nirbhaya-case in 2012, when a young middleclass girl was brutally raped in a bus by five men in Delhi. After this horrifying incident a lot of demonstrations followed all over India. READ MORE

  5. 4. Women and Maids : Perceptions of domestic workers, house work and class among young, progressive, middle-to-upper class women in Delhi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Otso Harju; [2016]
    Keywords : Domestic workers; Delhi; Class; Gender roles; Reflexivity; Social change; Family; India; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses ten indepth interviews on domestic workers, class and gender roles with ten young, politically inclined and often adamantly feminist women towards the upper end of the Indian class spectrum. It aims to deepen the understanding of employerworker relations and gendered domestic roles in contemporary Indian households. READ MORE

  6. 5. 'Suddenly you are told that you are leaders.' The framing of leadership among members of feminist NGOs in New Delhi.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Inga Marie List; [2015]
    Keywords : Buzzword; Feminism; Feminist leadership; Feminist NGOs; Framing; India; Leadership; New Delhi; NGOisation; WPR; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Leadership is often proposed as a key solution for social change, although the actual meaning remains unclear. By studying leadership in the context of Indian feminist NGOs’ hybridity, situated in-between Western structures and the values of the Indian Women’s Movement, I intended to deepen our understanding of the lived meaning of leadership and followership, beyond its buzzword character. READ MORE