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Madhu Joshi
Madhu Joshi is Senior Advisor, Gender Equity and Governance at Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3). She has more than 24 years of progressive experience with women’s organisations, national and international development agencies. Her thematic expertise extends across a range of gender issues, including violence against women, women’s political empowerment and reproductive health and rights. She currently leads C3’s work on gender, including interventions focused on advocacy and programmes.
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Should girls be ‘controlled’? Opinions among young boys and parents in Bihar
The practice of child marriage among girls continues to be common in Bihar. In this note, Priyadarshini, Joshi and Bhattacharya present findings from their survey of boys and parents, wherein they construct an index for the “tendency to control women and girls’ sexuality and assertion of choice” to measure a possible factor driving this trend. Highlighting the regressive views of young boys in particular, they advocate for gender sensitisation at the school and community levels.
