Her story has risen to national attention in India, seen by many as an example of how women continue to be held back by conservative social attitudes.
NEW DELHI — Last summer, an Indian woman posted a photo of herself wearing a bikini on her private Instagram account. The photo was taken in her bedroom as one of a number of self-portraits in clothes she felt she would be harassed and shamed for wearing in public. She was right.The images were found by a student at St. Xavier’s University in Kolkata, where she had recently taken a job as a professor of English.
The response left her shaken. The university disputed her account and threatened her with a $12.5 million defamation suit. The professor’s legal notice and the university’s reply were reviewed by The Washington Post. hinder their ability to live, dress and behave freely. Discrimination and the threat of sexual harassment and violence in the workplaceThe extent of the problem is evident in multiple global surveys on gender inequality. India was ranked 135th out of“We thought that when women became educated, they would be valued, free and unafraid. They are not,” wrote author Deepa Narayan in her book “Chup,” or Quiet, which explored the lives of modern Indian women.a cultural or collective issue.
In her first teaching job at a prominent college in Mumbai, Shilpa Phadke, now a cultural studies professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, recalled that the principal once walked in mid-class to berate a student about her clothes. Later, when the teachers protested, he was unwilling to listen, she said.
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