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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
Safecity Monthly Updates – June 2021
Safecity is committed to creating safer communities for everyone. Our goal is to empower citizens by helping them understand the potential risks they could face in different neighborhoods. We can do this by sharing data about the experiences of others and making these stories [...]Read more
The Pride Month Golden Narrative: The Madras HC Judgement By Justice Venkatesh Instills Hope Among The LGBTQIA+ Community
Sushama and Another v. Commissioner of Police and others is a case that is drawing our attention and that too for all the right reasons. A briefing of the case: The solicitors were a lesbian couple who fled from their respective homes after their parents rejected their [...]Read more
Societal notions of motherhood and its impact on women
The experience of childbearing is often described as amazing and joyous, going as far as labeling it the heyday for women. It is of course a moment of elation to finally see their baby, after carrying the child for nine months in their womb. While the prospect of being a new [...]Read more
Safecity Monthly Updates – May 2021
Safecity Monthly Updates – May 2021 Safecity is committed to creating safer communities for everyone. Our goal is to empower citizens by helping them understand the potential risks they could face in different neighborhoods. We can do this by sharing data about the experiences of [...]Read more
Preventive measures to end street harassment
Baby! Nice butt! Wanna have sex! Welcome to the daily life of a travelling woman. It does not matter if you are a student going to a coaching class or a grown woman on your way to work. If you are a woman you are bound to have experienced catcalling in your life at least […]Read more
Safecity Monthly Updates – April 2021
Safecity aims at making our cities safer for every citizen. It is rigorously working towards the fulfillment of this cause by empowerment through data. By reporting and sharing our stories, we can help and make others situationally aware of the neighborhoods they visit. The data [...]Read more
Safecity Monthly Updates – March 2021
Safecity aims at making our cities safer for every citizen. It is rigorously working towards the fulfillment of this cause by empowerment through data. By reporting and sharing your story, one can help and aware others through this platform. The data collected at the Safecity [...]Read more
Safecity Monthly Updates – February 2021
Safecity aims at making our cities safer for every citizen. It is rigorously working towards the fulfillment of this cause by empowerment through data. By reporting and sharing your story, one can help and aware others through this platform. The data collected at the Safecity [...]Read more
Beauty with Brains
Nida Shaikh is a self-proclaimed feminist and a writer who wants to stay on the right side of history. Pursuing her passion for writing, she has taken up English Literature hoping that somehow she helps society to be better than what it has always been. “For a girl, you are [...]Read more