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Empowering Women In Family Planning Helps Mother and Child
Gender Inequality denies Indian women reproductive choices, which is linked to maternal and children’s mortality and health and nutrition outcomes.
The theme of International Women’s Day 2021 is Choose to Challenge. This theme urges us all to take action for equality by raising awareness against bias to build a gender-equal world. The health sub-theme for this year recognises a women’s health as her capital and encourages women to be empowered enough to make informed reproductive decisions. In this piece, I strive to raise awareness about the lack of control that women in India face over their choice of contraceptive use.
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The ongoing pandemic has adversely affected women around the world in a number of ways, including through employment and income loss. The countries within the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) have also suffered from its effects. These countries had made some improvements in terms of women's empowerment over the past
th among the 189 countries in 2019.
The World Economic Forum reveals that in 2020, out of 153 countries, five BIMSTEC countries such as Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka rank below 100
th position in the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI). Bangladesh ranks 50
th and Thailand 75
th in the list. All these countries have slipped in the GGGI 2020 compared to the 2018 index due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Compared to the 2018 GGGI, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Sri Lanka lost two positions each, India and Nepal four positions, Bhutan nin positions, and Myanmar slipped down by 26 positions. The GGGI is prepared based on four indicators such as economic participation opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. One of the reasons for this drop is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women.