Womens Stories

A Pandemic Year for Women: For a therapist, creating safe spaces for others meant finding one of her own

This essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.

A Pandemic Year for Women: For a community library and its members, what is lost and found in a lockdown

This essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.

A Pandemic Year for Women: In an unprecedented crisis, rethinking an art practice, and ways of living

This essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.

A Pandemic Year for Women: For those with a history of confinement, the lockdown was 'better' than what came before

This essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.

A Pandemic Year for Women: Lessons for a rural healthcare startup in Bihar during the COVID-19 crisis

This essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.

A Pandemic Year for Women: For an expectant mother, a fraught but life-affirming experience

This essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.

Women's Day 2021: Women write about their experiences in an unprecedented year of the pandemic

While the coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns have been especially hard on women, there are also many stories of resilience, courage and hope that have emerged in these times.

A Pandemic Year for Women: Notes on negotiating the coronavirus crisis as a healthcare worker

This essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.

My grandmother fled from the horrors of Partition. What she couldn't outrun was the patriarchy

India gained her Independence amid the violence of Partition. But did my 92-year-old grandmother ever win hers?

Noticing and note-taking with Shubhangi Singh

The anecdotes that emerge from Shubhangi Singh's process of note-taking explore a wider framework of female existence and operation in the public sphere