Women’s Development Cell

The Women’s Development Cell is a forum for discussing issues of gender, patriarchy and sexuality with and amongst the students. The primary purpose is to introduce them to the basic concepts of gender and link them to the experiences of their daily lives, enabling the understanding of patriarchy at work around us, thereby making it possible to develop strategies for challenging entrenched structures of domination.

The WDC seeks to further the larger objective of creating a gender just society by sensitising our students, equipping them to uncover the often hidden and implicit biases that are built into the world we inhabit, as well as to make them aware that while fore-grounding gender, it is important to understand how it interacts with other identities of class, caste, religion and sexual orientation.

The WDC wants to become a space that enables students to raise and resolve both day to day issues, and to dream big and work towards a gender just world. The forum seeks to sensitise students through lectures, workshops, film screenings etc. about a wide range of issues. Promoting legal literacy and equipping our students to exercise their rights is a prominent goal of the WDC.