Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 6: The Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Jammu, organized a gender sensitization workshop, here today, under ongoing series for the students and scholars of the Department of Sociology.
Dr Sonia Aneja, Faculty, Department of Law, University of Jammu, was the resource person. She spoke about the Legal provisions for women’s safety and explained the importance of Gender and Law. She mentioned how the status of the women since time immemorial has remained secondary, and even in the contemporary society, the situation is no better as women lack legal literacy.
Dr Aneja also spoke about the Constitutional Provisions under various Articles like 14,15,16,19 etc. She also shared few landmark case-studies related to Sexual Harassment, Acid Attacks, Land Inheritance, and Rape. She further stressed upon the importance of Gender sensitization through education, the stringent implementation of laws and rational makeover of stereotypical mindset.
Earlier, at the very outset, Prof Vishav Raksha, Head, Department of Sociology and Director, Centre for Women’s Studies, explained the rationale behind the conduct of such workshops. She said that these workshops are an attempt to inculcate the gender sensitivity among the students to make them gender sensitive human beings. She further explained that through these workshops, the Centre has created a team of Gender experts within the University from different departments who are very effectively supporting and helping the initiative of sensitizing the students within and outside the Campus.
Faculty members, Research Scholars and Students of Department of Sociology very actively participated in the workshop and shared their personal experiences and raised many queries on the issues like Women Empowerment, Trans-gender Identity, Dowry, etc, which were answered to their satisfaction by the resource person as well as the Director, CWS. The workshop was conducted and coordinated by Dr Saranjit Kaur, and the formal vote of thanks was presented by Kunzang Angmo, both Faculty members, Centre for Women’s Studies. Dr Gopal Sharma, faculty, Department of Sociology, looked after the digital modalities of the workshop.
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