Pallavi Das (name changed) cries in bed every night after her husband inflicts pain on her while sexually abusing her. She is not sure if it is right to call it “sexual abuse” as her husband says it is the foundation of a healthy marriage. According to The Better India website, 106 countries have recognized marital rape […]
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‘PCOS should be a valid reason for leave or WFH’ With one in five women diagnosed with PCOS, doctors say there is a need to educate them on the syndrome. Many women do not seek medical help because they find it uncomfortable to discuss it. Women see their close ones going through PCOS, but don’t speak […]
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‘Almost all have suffered stress during Covid’ As Covid seems to decline, domestic violence cases show no sign of receding, according to Bengaluru police data. Cases of dowry harassment from January to August 2022 in the Shivaji Nagar police limits alone number 132. “There were 800 Not Criminally Responsible (NCR) cases registered in the first eight […]
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Had more work at home despite help from men. Women working from home had more workload than men during the pandemic-induced lockdowns, affecting their mental health, as per a study. Deloitte’s study on the impact of pandemic on working women has revealed that 65 per cent of the surveyed women had shouldered greater responsibility than […]
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Stress, smoking, drinking among the many reasons A man came in with swift steps with a box of sweets in his hands. The nurses smiled and congratulated him on having his first newborn. In contrast to him was a woman, not more than 25 years of age, wiping her tear-stained face with the crumpled end of […]
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“FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) is working further towards women empowerment and entrepreneurship” said Ujjwala Singhania, President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) FLO, while speaking at the inauguration of the 10th year of its Bengaluru Chapter The FLO aspires for a society where women are harbingers of change. Rasmi Sarita, the Executive […]
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Say restrictions by landlords are unreasonable Women living alone in big cities like Bengaluru struggle to find a home as people are unwilling to rent out apartments to them. Sugandha Agarwal, 25, a software engineer who came to Bengaluru in 2018 for her job, informed The Observer: “For bachelors like us, especially women, searching for […]
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Hospitals suggest them to earn more,say experts. Owing to medical reasons, there has been an increase in caesarean section deliveries in Bengaluru. Experts say hospitals advise women to go for C-section to make monetary gains. Statistics of the National Family Health Survey-5 show that about 30.6 percent of pregnant women in Bengaluru Urban had C-section […]
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Some still don’t see docs due to taboos, shyness The percentage of women who made at least four antenatal visits to maternity clinics has risen by 0.8 per cent over four years as per the State Fact sheet of the National Family Health Survey, 2019). According to the NFHS, the percentage of women who made […]
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State govt has raised budget by Rs 2 cr, but No. of beneficiaries has gone up The Karnataka government has decided to re-implement the Shuchi sanitary napkin distribution scheme in the financial year 2021-22, but with a reduced budget, the adequacy of this scheme is still in question. The state government has allocated a budget […]
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