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⭐️Indian Women in Digital Spaces: Does Online Anonymity Guarantee Safety?
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1. The central thought is that Anonymity has always been associated with women for most of history, so much so that a grant program named ‘Anonymous was a Woman Award’ was initiated by a New York artist in 1996.
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2. Anonymous Was A Woman is an unrestricted grant of $25,000 that enables women artists, over 40 years of age and at a significant juncture in their lives or careers, to continue to grow and pursue their work.
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2(a) The Award is given in recognition of an artist's accomplishments, artistic growth, originality and potential. It is not need-based. The Award is by nomination only.
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3. The name of the grant program, Anonymous Was A Woman, refers to a line in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. As the name implies, nominators and those associated with the program are unnamed.
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3(a) The award was begun in 1996 in response to the decision of the National Endowment of the Arts to cease support of individual artists.
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3(b) The award was designed for women artists who are over 40 years of age to counter sexism in the art world. It has been founded in recognition of all women artists who have remained anonymous through the ages for various reasons.
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4. State of the World’s Girls Report:
Carried out in 2022 by UK-based humanitarian organisation Plan International, the survey, titled “State of the World’s Girls Report”,
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5. The research is based on a large-scale survey of almost 29,000 girls and young women aged 15 to 24 from 29 countries spanning all regions, income levels and civic contexts.
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5(a) It also includes in-depth interviews with 94 girls and young women across 18 countries.
who were a mix of programme participants and young activists.
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6 The gender and age gap in political
leadership and representation:
- 10 countries with Woman State Head
- 13 countries with woman as head of govt
- 21% of govt ministers are Woman
- 26% of parliamentarians are woman
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7. Despite Women making a statement in every feild of our society, 2020 "State of World's Girls" survey had showed a dark face of digital world when it comes to Online Women harassment.
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8. Report themed around online Woman safety showed that, 58 per cent of the respondents accepted having faced online harassment or abuse on different social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, and TikTok.
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9. “In Europe 63 per cent of girls reported harassment, followed by 60 per cent of girls in Latin America, 58 per cent in the Asia-Pacific region, 54 per cent in Africa, and 52 per cent in North America,”
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9. 50 per cent of girls said they face more online
harassment than street harassment.
The platform it happens most on is Facebook.
(39 per cent), followed by Instagram (23 per
cent) as per survey done by Plan International.
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10. Increased space on the internet means that harassers are also able to engage online and it also brings up new mountains to climb in forms of violations of privacy, electronic surveillance and online harassment.
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11. Digital violence is a genuine concern and a fly in the ointment for politically active women who want to use the internet to further their political cause, unlike may be the case for their male counterparts.
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11(a) The wellness implications of online harassment prevent women from exercising their right to free speech.
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12. A 2020 global survey of young people’s experience
of online abuse and harassment was conducted by
The World Wide Web Foundation and the World
Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
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12(a) The survey found that 52 per cent of young women and girls have experienced online abuse, including threatening messages, sexual harassment and the sharing of private images without consent;
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12(b) 64 per cent of all respondents know someone who has experienced harassment, abuse or violence and young people’s top concern is the sharing of private images, videos or messages without their consent – 30 per cent said it is what worries them most.
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13. Level of social media usage by region
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14. Most frequently used social media platforms
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15. PERCENTAGE OF GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN FACING DIFFERENT TYPES OF HARASSMENT
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16. Biggest point to worry about is online threat of sexual violence.

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17. Harassment appears to fall into two specific categories:
A. Harassment that girls experience simply for
being a girl and for being online. It is unrelated to the
content of what she posts and is ubiquitous to girls’
experiences of social media use.
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17(a) B. A heightened level of harassment when girls are actively engaged in speaking out online. Activists
are attacked for what they are saying and for their
outspokenness. Harassers are interacting with the
content, with the debates girls and young women are
involved in.

18. Sexual objectification is very much part of a girl’s social media experience, with the way girls are dressed or present themselves online being subject to intense and critical scrutiny.
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19. Portraits of the perpetrators - Online Harassers
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20. The effect of harassment on girls and young
women
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21. F GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN WHO APPLY
BEHAVIOURAL SOLUTIONS
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22. GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN Hi APPLYING TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS
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23. actors Who should help fight online harassment against girls and young women
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24. Recommendations for a safe online space for Women
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