Women Not So Invisible In Farm Law Protests
Women farmers take valuable tips from women’s day march to reach out to a wider audience at home PTI outlookindia.com 2021-03-09T19:58:58+05:30
Also read
A day after celebrating Women’s Day at farmers’ protest sites, most of the ladies are back – or on way – home to attend to household and agricultural chores.
But for many of them, it was a hands-on experience and learning which they intend to share with others in villages or at block-level.
Thousands of women farmers had joined protests against the Centre’s farm laws at the national capital’s borders on Monday, March 8. They had taken leadership and managed the event that day, marking it as Mahila Kisan Diwas.
‘Claiming their identities as farmers’: TIME honors women leading farmer protests
The report also addresses women’s contributions to farming that are overlooked as part of their household duties.
By Sruthi Vibhavari| Published: 5th March 2021 4:14 pm IST
Hyderabad: “Why should we go back? This is not just the men’s protest. We toil in the fields alongside the men. Who are we if not farmers?” asked 74-year-old Jasbir Kaur, who has been camping at the Ghazipur protest site for over three months against the Indian government’s three contentious farm laws.
Kaur is one of the many women who were honoured by the American news magazine TIME in its March edition. On its magazine cover, it featured a group of women farmers ‘on the frontlines of India’s farmer protests’ and highlighted their role in the protests, equal to that of men.
TIME magazine’s cover features women leading India’s farmer protests
Some protestors told ‘Time’ that their numbers increased after the chief justice of India said that elderly people and women should return home. Updated Mar 05, 2021 · 09:40 pm The cover of the magazine s March edition. | Twitter/TIME
Women farmers protesting against the Centre’s three agricultural laws at Delhi’s borders for over three months have featured on the international cover of
Time magazine’s March edition. The magazine tweeted the cover story on Friday, a day before the protest enters its 100th day.
“This law will kill us, will destroy what little we have,” Amandeep Kaur, a farmer from Talwandi in Punjab, told the magazine. Punjab Kisan Union member Jasbir Kaur Nat, who is mobilising farmers at the Tikri protest site, said women are often not seen as farmers. “Their labor is immense but invisible. Women are changing women here. They are claiming t
India
Thursday 11 February 2021, by Himanshi Dahiya
As lakhs of farmers continue their protest against the new farm legislations introduced by the Modi government, a remarkable number of women are not only braving the rough weather by participating in these demonstrations but are also leading from the front.
The agitation which has now entered its third month is being deemed as one of the world’s biggest protests where farmers from several states in the country marched to India’s national capital in late November and early December of 2020.
Sixty-five-year-old Jasbir Kaur Natt has been a farmers’ and labourers’ rights activist for more than 30 years. She is a state committee member of the Punjab Kisaan Union and is identified as a communist. We met her near the main stage at the Tikri Border, where, as the head of the steering committee, she is responsible for handling the speakers and the crowd. “In addition to being a farmer leader, I am also a communist. I have been