India Archives – Page 25 of 25

High School Student Says Abstinence Efforts Fail

By Kari Petrie ● Commentary ● March 14, 2001

A 17-year-old Minnesota commentator says most students welcome sexuality education, openly scoff at abstinence-only programs and believe the government should stay out of young women’s reproductive lives. But abstinence is okay, too.

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Sex Bias in Citizenship Law Challenged

By Victoria Graham ● Commentary ● January 10, 2001

Challenging one of the few remaining gender-based federal statutes, women’s advocates urged the Supreme Court to overturn the law that makes it harder for fathers to transmit citizenship to their foreign-born children than it does for mothers.

Indian Women Pioneer Informal Justice Courts

By Kalpana Sharma ● Crime & Law ● November 30, 2000

Some pioneering women jurists in remote Indian villages are barely literate, but they know the law often ignores women. Sitting in a circle on the floor, they dispense justice in cases of divorce, abandonment, violence, rape and dowry demands.

Tale of Woman Burned Alive Tells Much About India

By Kalpana Sharma ● Commentary ● August 4, 2000

A woman who was set afire and allowed to burn to death in front of the bustling Mumbai Railway Station is but one gruesome example of the abiding and even increasing violence against women in India where laws are enlightened but people are not.

NY Senate Drops Women’s Health Bill

By Melinda Voss ● Commentary ● June 26, 2000

The New York State Senate recessed without passing a bill that would have mandated insurance coverage for contraceptives, mammograms, bone density scans and pap smears. It mandated coverage for prostate screening but said women’s health needs more study.

Rape: The View from India Seems Oh So Familiar

By Sathya Saran ● Commentary ● May 13, 2000

This essay, written for an Indian women’s magazine, reveals extensive similarities between U.S. cultural beliefs and those present in a nation with dramatically different history and customs.