In India, there are around 50 Crore Internet users. It is growing at a rate of 10% per year in the urban areas and 13% per year in the rural areas. Similarly, one-third of internet users in India are women. Today, a person spends an average of 145 minutes every day on social media. These platforms have a significant degree of influence on people\u2019s political, social, and economic lives. Here too, a major part of users are women. Thus, is it important to find out, how seriously these platforms are dealing with gender issues including representation, safety, and security?<\/p>\n
This article analyses the most fundamental obstacles in front of women in India, to engage meaningfully with social media and suggests a corrective framework for ensuring equitable access.<\/span><\/p>\n Initially, social media used to be a medium of entertainment or chatting and interaction within a closed group of friends. However, now social media provides immense opportunities and benefits in social, political, and economical domains. It has also become a golden opportunity for women in traditional families who are not able to step outside their homes.<\/p>\n Numerous steps have already been taken for improving women’s safety over online platforms to allow them to reap the potential benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n However, it is nothing like that all women have access to social media in India. Here also, just like other work or public spaces, women face various obstacles.<\/p>\n These impediments should be duly addressed so that women are able to fully utilise the multiple benefits of Social Media.<\/span><\/p>\n Nonetheless, we require some more measures for enhancing women’s participation over social media platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n Women deserve greater access to social media platforms<\/a> in order to unleash their true potential and properly exercise their right to freedom of speech. This warrants the creation of an enabling infrastructure that fulfills the ideals of inclusiveness and safety. Such an environment will instill greater trust among women and would help in ensuring gender justice.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: <\/span>ORF<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduction In India, there are around 50 Crore Internet users. It is growing at a rate of 10% per year in the urban areas and 13% per year in the rural areas. Similarly, one-third of internet users in India are women. Today, a person spends an average of 145 minutes every day on social media.… Continue reading Accessibility and Need of Social Media for Indian Women – An Analysis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,9],"tags":[1396],"class_list":["post-105845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-pm","category-public","tag-soc_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}State of Indian Women over Social Media<\/b>:<\/span><\/h5>\n
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