Browsing Tag: Women

Photographer Poulomi Basu said she got the idea after reading a newspaper article in 2009: India for the first time was recruiting women to serve in its Border Security Patrol, training them to police the country’s long and dangerous boundary with its archenemy, Pakistan.

By transcending societal views of beauty, I believe that I can focus more on my actions. My attitude and thoughts and actions have more value in them than my body because I recognize that this body is just going to become ash in the end, so why fuss about it?

"It's all about the steps."

Female infanticide and foeticide can be stopped through widespread awareness and national regulations. We must join hands, in more than just prayer, to save the missing girls of India and put an end to this genocide.

Is it? As women of today, the word “submission” doesn’t immediately bring to mind “love”, “happiness”, or “comfort”. Yet in truth, submission sometimes does make us happy. But no, Grey, it’s not that simple.

It's time to stand up. It's time to stand up and face our fears. It's time to stand up and discover the courage we never thought we had. It's time to stand up to change. To a positive revolution. A revolution that we as young people can be a part of. If I can do it, SO CAN YOU!

Thanks to their lower skills, men are dropping out of the labor force. In 1954, 96 percent of the American men between the ages of 25 and 54 worked. Today, that number is down to 80 percent.

Though of different faiths, Seattle-area women who wear scarves, wigs, hats or turbans over their hair say the practice makes them feel connected to their faith, yes, but also protected and valued.

Today, a new project seeks to explore further the love expressed by Sikh women in its many forms, as told in their own voice. An anthology of short stories written by Sikh women about their experiences in love is being collected

Last week, a news story claimed women were suffering from a rise in bacterial infections due to the current mania for Brazilian and Hollywood bikini waxes.

...organisations like CMM are bracing for more migrant sex workers as the summer continues to sizzle. “The risks may be extremely high, but as long as their land is ‘dead’, the women will keep fleeing their homes and coming to this city,” says Jayamma.

Akali government might project itself as the sole representative of Sikh identity and principles when it comes to the issue of ban on turban in France but the very same government in its rule and soil has made it compulsory for all the women police officials to wear headgears including Sikh women as well.

So then why do we have a National Day of the Girl Child? Are we just paying lip service to the idea of female emancipation when nothing much has changed since Manu stated, way back in 200 BC: "By a young girl, by a young woman, or even by an aged one, nothing must be done independently, even in her own house". And further: "In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband; and when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent."

She was called dirty, ugly, a "little packet of poison," the offspring of donkeys. These days, Kalpana Saroj is called something else: a millionaire.

An honest, frank and uncensored account of one woman's decision to stop removing her hairs and her ensuing experiences. (note: contains raw language)

CROQUIS FIGURE AND A PEN IN MY MASTER'S HAND BY THE POWER OF THE WORD HE SHAPES ME AS 'AKAL'

The LSA is helping Jazmine with her election campaign for the UK Youth Parliament (UKYP). Jazmine will be at a number of Gurdwaras this weekend campaigning along with an appearance on the Sikh channel.

This weekend at Raj Khalsa Gurdwara in Sterling Virginia, Saturday May 5th, there will be an inspired woman’s gathering to discover the power and potency of a woman’s prayer. All ages are welcome

Despite the patriarchal aspects of Sikh culture, a Sikh feminist speaking lat the University of B.C. says the religious tradition holds many liberating features, which women and men can both embrace for a more egalitarian society.

Merida isn’t your usual 2-D Disney Princess, as she’ll be hitting theaters in 3-D and CGI like Rapunzel. But you can be sure that Jasmine, Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Belle, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, and Rapunzel will soon be welcoming a Scottish princess.

Sikh women from Kent are using painting to explain how marriage changed their lives so dramatically.

Princess Basma Bint Saud Bin Abdulaziz tells the BBC there are many changes she would like to see in Saudi Arabia - but that now is not the time for women to be allowed to drive.

I was not its only admirer; every time I delivered a gallery talk to eager visitors from around the world, this photographic study, taken in 1906 and showing the ebb and flow of pilgrims to this most famous of Sikh shrines, consistently mesmerised the crowds.

“Guru Nanak is to me a feminist,” says Sikh scholar Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh. That’s why the Punjabi professor can’t accept how her religion has become so patriarchal; filled with “machismo” and a “warrior” mentality that often contradicts its original teachings.

I have been experimenting with wearing my hairs down and then wearing them up and covered. Here are my own personal experiences about my hair...

But if you linger a minute longer, you will hear us beam about the equality of women in our faith. Unlike in most other religions, our scriptures are explicit about women as equal in the eyes of God.

They often are forbidden from opening savings accounts, borrowing money, or even selling crops at market. And what is the basis for these self-defeating practices? It is the simple fact that these farmers happen to be women.

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures”

Just as many women in the United States are feeling under assault from conservatives threatening to impose restrictions on abortion rights and even contraceptives, the groundbreaking agency U.N. Women is marking its first year and hundreds of firebrands and activists are convening here for the third annual Women in the World meeting.

Join us for a Global Meditation celebrating the United Nations' International Women's Day with live music and chanting.