Globally, women experience a greater burden of eye disease as compared to men. Women around the world face different obstacles in maintaining both healthy vision and prevention of vision loss. Understanding women’s eye health can be a challenge because
stormed the Urban Company’s Bengaluru headquarters to protest ‘auto’ job assignment feature on the platform. The protest was led by the Gig and Platform Services Workers Union (GIPSWU) and, as per a recent tweet by the Telangana gig workers union, is likely to spread to Hyderabad as well...
dynamics that are at play when thehome is the place of work. Drawing on conversations with women banglemakers in the Indian city of Hyderabad, I seek to unpack their daily negotia-tions between private and public, personal and occupational spheres asthey carve out space for paid work. I ...
Born in Los Angeles, California, Ochoa’s maternal grandparents had immigrated from Sonora, Mexico. After getting her bachelor of science degree in physics from San Diego State University in 1980, Ochoa went on to the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering for her masters and doctoral studies...
Since it is the male head who typically controls the family's finances, it is he who pays or receives a dowry at the time of a child's marriage. Although older women may be very influential behind the scenes, they wield little legal authority in property and marriage matters. ...