February

10-12
2018

Past Event

A conversation on gender equality – for everyone’s benefit?

  • Saturday, February 10, 2018 - Monday, February 12, 2018

    4:30 am - 2:30 am IST

Goa University & International Center Goa.

Dr. E Borges Road, Dona Paula
Goa
403004

Content from the Brookings Institution India Center is now archived. After seven years of an impactful partnership, as of September 11, 2020, Brookings India is now the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, an independent public policy institution based in India.

Brookings India Director of Research Shamika Ravi on a panel on Women in Politics
Discussion on Gender in Street Situations
Panel on Transforming Gender Norms
Transgender activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi speaks at a panel on Trafficking and Vulnerability
Governor of Goa, Mridula Sinha, at the Difficult Dialogues 2018 inauguration
Difficult Dialogues 2018 Inauguration
Panel on Women in Politics
Panel on #MeToo and the Missing Conversation

Brookings India was a knowledge partner at Difficult Dialogues 2018, an annual conference that was held from February 9 to 11 at the International Centre Goa (ICG) and this year, focused on gender equality.

Brookings India Director of Research, Shamika Ravi was part of a panel discussion on women in politics. (Download her working paper: Why so few women in politics – evidence from India)

The conference featured leading experts, policy makers and renowned personalities including filmmakers Prakash Jha and Ketan Mehta; actors Nandita Das and Deepa Sahi; LGBT rights activists Laxmi Narayan Tripathi and Ashok Row Kavi, women’s rights activists Flavia Agnes, Zakia Soman, Vrinda Grover, Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon were part of the event.

Discussions revolved around the topics of portrayal of gender in cinema; trafficking and vulnerability; transforming gender norms; gender inequalities among Muslim women; masculinity at the workplace; women in education; gender, masculinities and violence; women and the law; and fatherhood and families.

Speakers also included Maharashtra’s first woman IPS officer Meeran Chaddha Borwankar and Rajya Sabha MP and former Union Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury and politician Jaya Jaitly.

 

 

Actress Nandita Das at the Difficult Dialogues 2018

Aijaz Ilmi at the Difficult Dialogues 2018

Professor Shohini Ghosh talks at the Difficult Debate 2018