Centre for Women’s Studies University of Jammu organizes Gender Sensitization Workshop

Jammu, Dec 21- The Centre for Women’s Studies, in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and IT and Electronics (jointly) University of Jammu organized 16^th workshop under the ongoing series for the students and scholars of the Department of Electronics and Computer Science and IT.  Dr. Sonia Aneja, Faculty, The Law School, University of Jammu was the resource person.

The workshop was planned under the vision and guidance of Prof.Vishav Raksha, Director, Centre for Women’s Studies. The session began with the welcome address by Dr.Saranjit Kaur, Faculty, Centre for Women’s Studies who gave details about the working of the Centre and introduced the Resource person. Further she also explained about the concept of gender and gender stereotypes prevalent in the society.

Dr. Sonia Aneja, the key resource person for the workshop, spoke about the concept of Gender and Law. In her address, she mentioned how the condition of the women since time immemorial has been secondary. She spoke about the Constitutional provisions under various articles and highlighted the existing legal provisions available to safeguard the rights of women. She also shared a few landmark case judgments related to Sexual harassment, Acid attack, Land inheritance, and Rape. While the interaction, she also stressed upon the importance of Gender sensitization and suggested few remedial measures to bring gender equality through education, the stringent implementation of laws and a rational makeover of mindset.

Prof. Pawanesh Abrol Head, Department of Computer Science and IT, emphasized on the importance of such workshops. He also congratulated and appreciated the efforts of the Centre to conduct a such workshop for their students and scholars. Further he said that such types of workshops are much required and Centre is very efficiently conducting them on campus across various disciplines.   

Students and Research Scholars of both the departments very enthusiastically participated in the workshop and raised many queries which were answered to their satisfaction. The workshop was conducted and coordinated by Dr. Saranjit Kaur and the formal vote of thanks was presented by Mrs. Kunzang Angmo both faculty members, Centre for Women’s Studies.  The office staff of the department of Computer Science and IT looked after the digital modalities of the workshop.

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