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Moving beyond Bureaucratic Grey Zones. Managing Sexual Harassment in Indian Higher Education
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Sinha, Anamika; Bondestam, Fredrik – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
In the aftermath of the global #Metoo-movement, sexual harassment (SH) and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV) have emerged at the forefront of public debate and research. Higher education instituions (HEI) worldwide have responded with different preventive measures, targeting context-specific challenges and solutions. In India, post the…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Foreign Countries, Social Media, Higher Education
Male Coaches' Sexual Harassment, Abuse, and Assault as Perceived by Female Athletes in India and Pakistan
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Ahmed, Md. Dilsad; Cardinal, Bradley J.; Khan, Salahuddin; Khan, Babar Ali; Begum, Shaheen – Physical Educator, 2022
The #MeToo Movement has brought sexual harassment, abuse, and assault experienced by females to the forefront of society. Within the athletic realm, this falls under the umbrella term "maltreatment of athletes." While maltreatment has been reported for decades, victims' voices have been amplified in recent years. For various political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Violence
Giving Girls Wings to Fly: Tools to Empower Adolescent Girls in Rural Communities in India. Echidna Global Scholars Program, Working Paper
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Modi, Armene – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2017
This working paper will share the experience of Ashta No Kai (ANK), a grassroots nonprofit the author founded in 1998 in 10 villages in Shirur County, Maharashtra state, India, to promote the empowerment and education of women and girls in rural areas. The paper will, at first, examine the state of education in India including the Indian…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Foreign Countries, Womens Education
Using the Photostory Method to Understand the Cultural Context of Youth Victimisation in the Punjab
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Skrzypiec, Grace; Slee, Phillip; Sandhu, Damanjit – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2015
Bullying is an international issue that is only just beginning to be researched in India and anecdotal evidence in Punjab, India, has suggested that most schools in the Punjab are in denial about bullying on campus. Our aim was to investigate the nature of bullying in this region using the PhotoStory Method. We sought to discover how young people…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Victims, Handheld Devices
Impact of Physical, Psychological, and Sexual Violence on Social Adjustment of School Children in India
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Deb, Sibnath; Walsh, Kerryann – School Psychology International, 2012
This study sought to understand the pervasiveness and impact of physical, psychological, and sexual violence on the social adjustment of Grade 8 and 9 school children in the state of Tripura, India. The study participants, 160 boys and 160 girls, were randomly selected from classes in eight English and Bengali medium schools in Agartala city,…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Sexual Harassment, Child Abuse, Identification
Women in Science in India: Has Feminism Passed Them By?
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Subrahmanyan, Lalita – Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 1995
Discusses problems women academic scientists in India face because of gender. Women scientists are aware of how their position in the academy is different from that of men but have not made efforts to address their problems collectively. States that these women have a feminist perspective of a kind but have been disassociated from the women's…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Employed Women, Ethnography, Feminism