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44. Period Leave (with Radhika Radhakrishnan and Padmini Ray Murray)
Has the time come?
Speakers
Can Indian companies start providing period leave for women, following Zomato and others’ lead? Radhika Radhakrishnan talks to Padmini Ray Murray about this important aspect of making workplaces better for women.
Menstruation, menopause, mental health, all remain taboo or distorted topics of conversation in much of India. Radhika and Padmini explore the arguments for, and against period leave, and make a case for why they are an important step in the right direction.
Radhika Radhakrishnan is a feminist researcher, doing qualititative research on the intersections of gender, sexuality, technology, and politics. She is currently a researcher at the Internet Democracy Project. She writes for various national media publications and journals, and hosts talks and podcasts on feminist issues.
Dr Padmini Ray Murray is the founder of Design Beku, a feminist collective that endeavours to place an ethics of care at the heart of digital and design practice. Her recent publications explore the implications of the digital for the feminist archive and protest in India, focusing on how corporate online spaces, commit and perpetuate epistemological violence against the marginalised.
Do read Radhika’s article on period leave, Bleeding on the Job: The socialisation of women to endure period pain at the workplace.
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Speakers
Radhika Radhakrishnan
Radhika Radhakrishnan is a feminist researcher, doing qualititative research on the intersections of gender, sexuality, technology, and politics. She has a Masters degree in Women’s Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is currently a researcher at the Internet Democracy Project. Previously, she has worked with the Centre for Internet and Society as a Programme Manager, the Internet Governance Forum, United Nations-DESA as a Gender Consultant, as well as the Women’s Rights Programme of the Association for Progressive Communications. She writes for various national media publications and journals, and hosts talks and podcasts on feminist issues. Radhika also has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering.
Padmini Ray Murray
Dr Padmini Ray Murray is the founder of Design Beku, a feminist collective that endeavours to place an ethics of care at the heart of digital and design practice. Her recent publications explore the implications of the digital for the feminist archive and protest in India, focusing on how corporate online spaces, commit and perpetuate epistemological violence against the marginalised. As a creative practitioner, Padmini creates new media work which reflects her research and interests, such as Darshan Diversion (with KV Ketan and Joel Johnson), a feminist videogame about the Sabarimala temple controversy (2016); Halt The Hate (with Pratyush Raman) an interactive database of crimes against minorities for Amnesty India (2017), “Visualising Cybersecurity” – a Hewlett funded project that aims to alter how cybersecurity is depicted and discussed in the media (with the Centre for Internet and Society and Paulanthony George).
