Blog | FemmeFirstFoundation

Aug 14
4 min

Status of Women 2020 - A Report

Owing to the sacrifices of our founders, on this day, 73 years ago, our colonisers officially left India. Since then, our country has com...

Saloni Bhardwaj

Aug 9
2 min

A Feminist Approach To Leadership Is Needed In India, Here’s Why!

In the most recent Gender-Equality Index, India ranked 95th out of 129 countries, based on issues ranging from health, gender-based viole...

The Way Forward for the Women's Reservation Bill

Ankita Phalle

Jul 13
5 min

The Way Forward for the Women's Reservation Bill

The third session of the She Runs Government Dialogues: Women’s Reservation Bill titled ‘The Way Forward’ was held on 12th July 2020.

Gender Quotas Around the World at the She Runs Government Dialogues

Samiksha Shubhadarshinee

Jul 12
4 min

Gender Quotas Around the World at the She Runs Government Dialogues

The second session of She Runs Government Dialogues: Women’s Reservation Bill was called The World Around and was held on 11th July, 2020.

History of the Women's Reservation Bill at the She Runs Government Dialogues

Saloni Bhardwaj

Jul 12
7 min

History of the Women's Reservation Bill at the She Runs Government Dialogues

Femme First Foundation held its second edition of the She Runs Government dialogues, as a series of webinars in partnership with The Quint.

She Runs Government Dialogues Launch Event

Annapoorna Nair

May 20
6 min

She Runs Government Dialogues Launch Event

Femme First Foundation launched its first She Runs Government dialogues, a platform to encourage women’s participation in politics, in New...

Angellica Aribam

Apr 18
2 min

Why the need for Femme First Foundation in today's India?

Seven years ago, I was chairing a district-level meeting of the officials of the NSUI, the students’ wing of the Indian National Congress...

Angellica Aribam

Apr 17
3 min

Voluntary party quotas are mere optics

Political parties have once again promised to pass the Women’s Reservation Bill in their manifestos. However, with the release of each pa...

Angellica Aribam

Apr 17
4 min

The history of gender quotas in India

In 1995, at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, the then First Lady Hillary Clinton gave the slogan: “Wo...

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