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The Matilda Effect in Academia and STEM
The Matilda Effect is essentially the consistent underrepresentation of women scientists due to incongruence between gender roles and scientific roles. The term was coined in the 19th century when Matilda J Gage, a feminist activist, talked about the constant lack of recognition [...]Read more
Miscarriage of Justice
Ansh Rastogi is a student at PGDAV College, DU, a tech savvy and a UPSC aspirant, all in that order. He recently joined Safecity as a blogging intern. He shared his views about loopholes in Indian Judiciary System while dealing with Violence against women. It is said that one [...]Read more
Rights of women while dealing with the police
We had @NyaayaIN conducting a tweetchat for us on Friday, 16th August about ‘Rights of women while dealing with the police’. The tweetchat began by discussing what a woman can do if the police are using brute force on her for resisting arrest. It was suggested [...]Read more
The Current Legal Scenario that can protect you from harassment during Holi
The Current Legal Scenario India currently has laws in place that adequately cover the harassment met out during Holi, the problem lies in its implementation. While general sexual harassment in public spaces related laws also apply to sexual harassment faced during Holi, other [...]Read more
Marital Rape: An Offence?
Krishna Thakkar is a second year BLS student from Pravin Gandhi College of Law and stands by writing to express her thoughts. She is a creative writer as well and believes that we, all as humans, perceive differently. MARITAL RAPE: AN OFFENCE? “I say nothing, not one word, from [...]Read more
Workplace Harassment
Tarini Date is a sociocultural anthropology and sociology double major at the University of Toronto. She enjoys reading, writing and listening to music. She’s passionate about travel and culture and is open to learning new ideas and experiencing new things. Workplace [...]Read more
Education through Door-to-Door Campaigning
Jyotsna Kalra is Safecity’s Program and Outreach Officer in Delhi and a Lawyer in the making. She has aspirations and dreams for a better world with better lives for all. Showing deviance, she would personally prefer to go towards this journey of change not through the legal [...]Read more
My Marriage, My Prison
Ayesha Mehrotra is pursuing her undergraduate degree in Bangalore. She is passionate about the environment and various social issues. Through her writing at this platform, she hopes to encourage the millions of unheard voices to speak out. My Marriage, My Prison I put on my [...]Read more
Behind The Bars
Jessica Xalxo uses a beautiful word to describe herself- iridescent. Jessica is an active blogger and is volunteering with Safecity as a blogger. A student by the hours, she is passionate and ferocious in her writing on several issues that plague gender and our society. [...]Read more
Our laws can protect us when we know them!
Smriti Sharma- Is a volunteer blogger who is a law student in her third year. A passionate writer, she believes that pen is mightier than the sword and that one with the power to mould words has the power to bring about a revolution. She is a voracious read and a hardcore [...]Read more