Women Interrupted - The Politics of Patriarchy

A trip down memory lane and examining India's commitment to gender equality beyond political grandstanding.

In this episode we look at some advances in gender equality over the last few months and mark the 25th year of the Beijing Declaration and Platform For Action.

In this episode we try to find answers to questions such as how women experience cities and if smart cities can make cities safer for women. Feat. Ayona Datta

In 2005, the Jagori Women’s Resource Centre in Delhi began to develop a multi-stakeholder research and organizing project for women to evaluate their cities for safety, map the results, and use the data to call publicly for change. As of 2020, the project, now based in Haryana, India, and known as Safetipin, has spread to Latin America, Africa, and much of the Asia-Pacific region

A quick introduction to the podcast and what listeners can look forward to hearing every week.

The period debate is back in India after food delivery company Zomato announced it will offer period leave to menstruating employees. While the initiative was welcomed by many women, it was also criticized by others as being anti-feminist.

India has one of the best recycling rates in the world - we recycle 70% of all water bottles and soft drink bottles as compared to 31% in the USA. All thanks to informal recycling chains in our cities. This chain starts with the waste pickers. There are an estimated 1.5 million to 4 million waste pickers in India, who pick up, clean, sort and segregate recyclable waste and sell

Hello my dear listeners. Welcome to Episode 11 of the Women Interrupted podcast where every week we deconstruct the very many ways in which women’s lives are interrupted all over the world but also specifically in India. I am your host Nilanjana. I am a journalist based in New Delhi India. Thank you for tuning in tonight. In today’s show – we will discuss how intimate partne

This show from the archives (1996!) has new relevance now the pandemic renders many courtships virtual. Caitlin Sullivan and Kate Bornstein co-wrote the book Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure, based on their pioneering experiments with sex, sexuality, and identity over the then-nascent World Wide Web. Although out of print, the book is enjoying a revival in the second d