Event Description

Chandraprabha Saikiani Centre for Women Studies, and department of Cultural Studies,Tezpur University jointly collaborated with DURGA (NGO), Bengaluru and conducted a workshop on “Dissection and Discussion on “Gender Gaps in Modern India” on 28th October,2021. The session started with brainstorming and break the ceiling activities with the students. A total number of 22 students participated in the workshop. In the inaugural session the resource persons were felicitated and were gifted a set of university publications. Ms. Margarate Johnson and Antara Buzarbaruah, team members of DURGA led the session on “Gender Gaps in Modern India”. Ms Margarate Johnson made all the students participate in the session through different physical activities. The session started with some warming up activities where all the students participated. The session was a complete interactive session where the students actively participated by sharing their views and comments on various gender issues. The speaker engaged the students with numbers of questions on gender issues and gender based values. The students responded well to the queries raised by the trainers. The speaker also asked the students to fill in the Impact Assessment Questionnaire. The students interacted on discussions made on sensitivity, women’s safety, Gender, violence, values, trust etc. The workshop was concluded with a vote of thanks by the centre HOD and future collaborations were discussed with the Faculty members of the centre and Head,department of Cultural Studies.