Category Archives: Gender (In)equity
Frame Changers #166: Postmodern Gender Roles
[Someday, oh, someday! This one is for my statistically significant other, Toral Zaveri. Happy Birthday! Wishing you good health, lots of love, and blissful utopian dreams.]
Frame Changers #56: Picky Picky Drivers
[Piki-Piki = motorbike taxi. Indian and Chinese motorbikes have transformed life in East Africa while providing self-employment opportunities to tens of thousands of young men. Its troubling when a 23-year old refuses to work in the late evening when everyone needs a ride home. Some men make just enough money for the day and go drinking with friends.]
Frame Changers #54: Emancipation from Participation
Frame Changers #50: Tied Up (With Work)
[In rural Africa, women do most of the work. Their income streams are highly diversified since farming is rain-fed and therefore seasonal. It is not uncommon for women to have over ten concurrent jobs in a week and more than fifty revenue sources over a year. Atleast, they don’t have fifty W2 and 1099 equivalents to file, since the work is mostly informal.]
Frame Changers #47: Sweat Inequity
[NGO = Non-Governmental Organization = Non-Profit]
Frame Changers #43: Water, Bottled
[Bottled water is a rapidly growing multi-billion industry in Africa. Ofcourse, women now have to walk long distances to fetch 20 liter ( = 20 kg) jars of water.]
Frame Changers #41: Gender Bender
[Lack of access to feminine hygiene products is a major reason why girls drop out of secondary school. Will the stigma around menstrual health be reduced if men start repurposing sanitary napkins to solve their own problems?]
Frame Changers #31: Poverty Begins at Home
[Over 15% of Americans live in poverty. Racial and ethnic minorities, women, children, and families headed by single women are particularly vulnerable to poverty.]
Frame Changers #17: Who’s the Loser?
[Treadle pumps (for irrigation) have been wildly successful in many countries. Some cultures have rejected them because the sway of women’s hips is considered provocative.]