Unit 18_Summaries

Your Name: Sakura Suo

Name of author (if written): Geeta Pandey

Dates (if not written, put “n.d.”): June 4, 2022
Title: Banished for bleeding: Tribal Indian women get better period huts
Name of Publisher/media: BBC News, Delhi
URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57335518
Date you retrieved the source: November 15, 2022

1. Why did you choose this article?

Because I was researching how the caste system affects in point of gender discrimination, I
founded this interesting article.

2. Summary (approximately 130 words in English)

According to Pandey (2022), in India, menstruation has long been taboo. It is shut out and rejected
from social and religious observances. The difficulties faced by the women of India's poorest and
most underdeveloped ethnic groups are extreme. According to their traditional beliefs, these
women must spend their days in huts in the forest. If a man touches them, he too becomes
"unclean.". But in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, the "menstruation huts" where
thousands of tribal women and girls are banished during menstruation are about to be reborn. She
reports that A Mumbai-based charity is seeking to replace the most dilapidated huts, known as
kurma ghar or gaokor, with modern rest facilities with beds, indoor toilets, running water, and
solar panels for electricity.

3. Suggest one discussion topic which is the best you can think of. The topic should make discussion
active, fun, meaningful, and deep!
What is the most important thing to eliminate gender discrimination?

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Your Name: Sayaka Kosugi

Name of author (if written):

Dates (if not written, put “n.d.”): July 22, 2022
Title: India's presidential election won by ethnic minority woman
Name of Publisher/media: NIKKEI Asia
URL: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/India-s-presidential-election-won-by-ethnic-minority-woman
Date you retrieved the source:2022/11/15

4. Why did you choose this article?

I was surprised because I didn't know that India has a female president.

5. Summary (approximately 130 words in English)

NIKKEI Asia (2022) reports that Draupadi Murmu, a woman from the minority community
Santhal, was elected the new president of India. She and became the first president of that tribe
and the second woman to hold that position. She was originally a teacher and then a politician.
Incidentally, the author adds Murum's father and grandfather were village chiefs in one of India's
villages, a so her family that had been involved in politics for generations. The author says that
her election victory was is a great relief to these tribal minorities living in remote villages where
medical and educational facilities are lacking, and that she is expected to replace the Hindu
nationalist leader of the Dalit community at the bottom end of the complex Hindu caste hierarchy.

6. Suggest one discussion topic which is the best you can think of. The topic should make discussion
active, fun, meaningful, and deep!
Why has Japan never had a female prime minister until now, and will there be one within 10
years?