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Women’s Education and Fertility in the Hindi Heartland

Vol. 55, Issue No. 12, 21 Mar, 2020
Saswata Ghosh, Vikash R Keshri

Using evidences from the Sample Registration System and the third and fourth rounds of the National Family Health Survey, this article shows that the fertility rate continues to be high in the Hindi heartland of the country, and that too among educated women. It also proposes some plausible hypotheses in this regard, which would require validation through further research.

Interpretations and Implications of Increasing Obesity in India

Vol. 55, Issue No. 1, 04 Jan, 2020
Sourindra Mohan Ghosh, Imrana Qadeer

The National Family Health Survey-3 and 4 data show that in the past 10 years, overweight/obesity among women in terms of Body Mass Index has increased quite sharply. In the Indian context, undernutrition and obesity are not separate problems. A large proportion of overweight/obese women are undernourished, with small stature, food transition towards more fats and increasingly sedentary lifestyles making them vulnerable towards being overweight/obese. More diversified diet reduces the risk of overweight/obesity. It is suggested that adequate and good quality diversified diets need to be ensured for comprehensive energy and nutrient adequacy. This requires an overhaul of India’s food programmes.

Despite Unionisation, Why Are Tea Workers Exploited?

Profits made by large tea corporations continue to increase at the expense of tea workers who are paid unfairly, and whose access to quality education, water, and other basic services is severely curtailed.

Do Self-Help Groups Transform the Lives of Poor Women? A Reading List

While self-help groups are seen as vital to successful anti-poverty policies , they have failed to develop the collective bargaining power of women and comprehensively incorporate the demands made by beneficiaries.

Seven Kinds of Deprivation That Women Face Everyday

Patriarchal structures have ensured that women’s access to resources, health, education, and political representation among other things, have remained heavily unequal.

What Survivors of Domestic Violence Need from Their New Government

Vol. 54, Issue No. 17, 27 Apr, 2019
This article discusses the problems with the current domestic violence act and discusses what a new government can do to alleviate the sufferings of a large section of women who are struggling to enforce court orders.

Different Workplaces, Similar Exclusions: Women’s Work in India

What are the kinds of exclusion that women face at work?

Delivering Essential Nutrition

Vol. 54, Issue No. 4, 26 Jan, 2019
Vani Sethi, Sourav Bhattacharjee, Sonali Sinha, Abner Daniel, Avinash Lumba, Deepika Sharma, Arti Bhanot

In India, despite provisions for tribal development, 32% of tribal women are chronically undernourished, as opposed to 23% among those not belonging to tribal households.Large-scale surveys and routine monitoring are currently deficient in measuring the nutrition status of women, especially tribal women. This study was undertaken to analyse the reach of various health-related schemes for tribal women in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Odisha. In the light of its findings, it is recommended that all national schemes should be reviewed through a tribal lens, as tribes remain outside the ambit of most nutrition safety nets. Proven measures like strengthening tribal development nodal agencies, motivational incentives to fieldworkers and organised community involvement, need to be scaled up.

Adivasi Claims Over Sabarimala Highlight the Importance of Counter-narratives of Tradition

Vol. 54, Issue No. 1, 05 Jan, 2019
In the context of the Supreme Court’s verdict on the entry of women in Sabarimala, the article examines the claim raised by the Mala Araya Adivasi community in Kerala over the Sabarimala temple and its rituals. The verdict provided momentum to the tribal community's articulation of their rights in the public sphere, especially about their tarnished history, stolen gods and the socio-economic alienation inflicted upon them by the state and its agencies in collusion with caste forces.

Women’s Participation in Karnataka’s FPOs

Vol. 53, Issue No. 45, 17 Nov, 2018
Chandre Gowda M J, Sreenath Dixit, Megha H L

Karnataka has evidenced a spurt in the formation and registration of farmer producer organisations in recent times, wherein the participation of women remains relatively low. There is a need for gender-sensitive initiatives to encourage women farmers to join the FPOs and benefit from the emerging agricultural value chains.

Pause for Thought

Vol. 53, Issue No. 43, 27 Oct, 2018
Deepa Das Acevedo

The Supreme Court’s verdict allowing girls and women of all ages to enter Sabarimala temple, thus overturning the ban on women between the ages of 10 and 50, is examined in this article along with an analysis of the majority ruling.

#MeToo: An International Conversation on Sexual Violence Impacting Feminist Discourse Across Borders

Vol. 53, Issue No. 43, 27 Oct, 2018
This article looks at the linkages between popular mobilisations against violence with a focus on the specific mobilisation of the #MeToo Movement that addresses a form of violence against women—sexual harassment. It traces the emergence of a new activism that is based on access to and use of social media as a platform for change and its outcomes.

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