Social Awareness

 “Moving beyond recognition that gender stereotyping is an obstacle to women’s rights to meaningful progress in implementing human rights obligations to address harmful stereotypes and wrongful stereotyping will require all of us – treaty bodies, special procedures, States Parties, civil society, academics and many others – to give this issue the serious attention it deserves.” What is a stereotype? A gender stereotype is a generalised view or preconception about attributes, or characteristics that are or ought to be possessed by women and men or the roles that are or should be performed by men and women. Gender stereotypes can be both positive and negative for example, “women are nurturing” or “women are weak”. Gender stereotyping is the practice of ascribing to an individual woman or man specific attributes, characteristics, or roles by reason only of her or his membership in the social group of women or men.A gender stereotype is, at its core, a belief and that belief may cause...

  Life is uncertain! And what if something happened antithetical to the way you thought it would be happening? And this actually happens often. Yes! This is life, having consequent crests and troughs.   And thus unfortunately, failures are a part of life. But these are pocket hole-sized reasons that must be stitched and recognised as life-lessons. Alas! Instead of stitching it, the victim continuously gets more indulged and tangled in it and this results in agonization. But in daily livelihood, all these awful agonies are just turned into some overused words with overlooked outcomes, like depression or mentally unstable. Recently, an excruciating incident was witnessed by us, we lost one of our spellbindingly talented Bollywood stars, Sushant Singh Rajput. Keeping the debates regarding his murder aside, it was reported that he committed suicide because of depression. And what happened next? Every particular question that arose were answered with just a single word ...