{"id":2803,"date":"2019-12-23T10:09:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T10:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehadixit.in\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2023-09-15T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:13:09","slug":"the-women-at-the-front-lines-of-indias-citizenship-law-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehadixit.in\/the-women-at-the-front-lines-of-indias-citizenship-law-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"The Women At The Front Lines Of India’s Citizenship Law Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/strong>Neha Dixit<\/em><\/div>\n Recently, they saw her in a protest picture. “‘You did exactly what we were scared of. What about our honour now?’ they told me,” she says.<\/p>\n Although the number of women in higher education in India has risen in the past few years to\u00a0comprise<\/a> 47.6 percent of the students currently enrolled, the societal expectation is for women to remain, passive bystanders, when it comes to political protest.<\/p>\n Swati Sinha, 24, a student from Lucknow who has attended every protest march in New Delhi since December 12, the day after the citizenship law was passed, says: “My parents want me to get married soon. First, this country needs to stay worth having a family. It is now or never.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n