Making Society Gender Sensitive, Dismantling Sexual Identities Crucial for Improving Women’s Status, Says V-C of Ambedkar University
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Making Society Gender Sensitive, Dismantling Sexual Identities Crucial for Improving Women’s Status, Says V-C of Ambedkar University

News 18  

Bhopal: Women empowerment has taken myriad dimensions in the last few decades and now gender sensitisation is emerging as an important tool for ending gender discrimination and offering women their due place in the society. For bolstering gender sensitisation in the society, country’s first university of its kind, Dr BR Ambedkar University of Social Sciences, Mhow, has been pursuing gender sensitisation with topmost priority with an aim to work towards women’s empowerment. Among other things, the department is working for gender sensitisation and women’s empowerment in order to raise awareness on gender equality in the society. Started under the leadership of Vice Chancellor Professor Asha Shukla, a known advocate of women rights and gender sensitisation who was instrumental in establishing state’s first Women Studies Department at Barkatullah University in Bhopal in 2010, the department at Mhow university is the only of its kind in the state.

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Women’s empowerment: LU institute highlights issue, opportunities in gender studies
1 year, 11 months ago

Women’s empowerment: LU institute highlights issue, opportunities in gender studies

Hindustan Times  

The Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Lucknow, organised a programme on ‘Women Empowerment and Career Opportunities in Gender Studies’ on April 12 at DAV PG College. The programme aimed to create awareness about the importance of women’s empowerment and the various opportunities available to students for professional growth in the field of gender studies. The event was also graced …

UGC Directs Colleges, Universities to Set up Complaint Committee Against Gender Bias
2 years, 9 months ago

UGC Directs Colleges, Universities to Set up Complaint Committee Against Gender Bias

News 18  

The University Grants Commission has directed universities and colleges to ensure the formation of the Internal Complaint Committee and a special cell to deal with gender-based violence and conduct gender sensitisation programmes. In an earlier notice, UGC had asked varsities to ensure the nomination of ‘Gender Champions’ among students who would lead the effort of making the campuses more gender-inclusive. …

UGC asks Universities to Add Content on Women in Leadership Roles to Fight Stereotype
3 years, 11 months ago

UGC asks Universities to Add Content on Women in Leadership Roles to Fight Stereotype

News 18  

The University Grants Commission has asked all universities, colleges, and higher education institutes to add more content on “leadership, sacrifices and remarkable role played by women in all walks of life” as part of their gender sensitization courses. The UGC has also asked higher education institutes to organize online lectures and webinars on women safety “to make the general public …

Lens on PhDs awarded in last 10 years
5 years, 10 months ago

Lens on PhDs awarded in last 10 years

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: PhD theses for which doctoral degrees have been awarded in the last 10 years by institutions in India are going to be reviewed, according to the University Grants Commission. A senior scientist at IICT-CSIR who does not want to be named, said, “The review is going to hit state universities and institutions where the standard and quality of research …

Call For Papers: Seminar On Gender Justice In India At GLC Kozhikode
6 years ago

Call For Papers: Seminar On Gender Justice In India At GLC Kozhikode

Live Law  

Clinical Justice Education Organisation, the Legal Aid Clinic of Government Law College Kozhikode in association with Kudumbasree, Kozhikode Corporation are conducting a two day National Seminar on the Topic: The Law and Problems Relating to Gender Justice in India at GLC, Kozhikode on 20th and 21st of March 2019. Themes Proposed sub-themes of the seminar are as mentioned below and …

ILNU Conducts Lecture On Gender Sensitive Campus
6 years, 6 months ago

ILNU Conducts Lecture On Gender Sensitive Campus

Live Law  

The Women Development Cell, Nirma University, recently organised the first lecture under the Distinguished Lecture Series, on ‘Towards a Gender Sensitive Campus’. The Distinguished Lecture Series, being conducted under the aegis of the Women Development Cell, aims to create an environment of learning from the rich experience of expert resource persons in the field of gender issues and women development. …

ILNU Conducts Lecture On Gender Sensitive Campus
6 years, 6 months ago

ILNU Conducts Lecture On Gender Sensitive Campus

Live Law  

The Women Development Cell, Nirma University, recently organised the first lecture under the Distinguished Lecture Series, on ‘Towards a Gender Sensitive Campus’. The Distinguished Lecture Series, being conducted under the aegis of the Women Development Cell, aims to create an environment of learning from the rich experience of expert resource persons in the field of gender issues and women development. …

“Violence against women is prevalent at all levels of society”
13 years, 3 months ago

“Violence against women is prevalent at all levels of society”

The Hindu  

Social Reformer Savitri Bhai Phule, Justice Navaneetham Pillay, Captain Lakshmi Sehgal, Irom Sharmila and Justice Fathima Beevi represent the struggles of emancipation of women with their exemplary qualities to fight gender inequality. At a conference held here in Gandhi Museum on Saturday, titled, ‘Towards Gender Justice,' the names of these women formed the different venues where various technical sessions on …

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