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This theme is most apparent in two of Bhabha’s favorite items. In a corner between two panel windows is a print by French artist Leger depicting a woman with her hand over her head, and right underneath is a piece of an Indian sculpture of a woman also with her hand over her head. Although both items are of completely different time periods, cultures, and media, they echo each other for a distinct effect...
Right after the International Women’s Day, the Indian Upper House took a great step toward gender equality by approving a bill that proposes an amendment mandating that a third of legislative seats be reserved for women for the next 15 years. The quota bill, despite being a fairly crude way of increasing women’s participation in the state legislature, constitutes significant progress toward the goal of gender equality in India; nevertheless, in the future, similar bills should be refined so as not to lead to corollary discrimination toward other groups...
Dodson, who currently lives and works in Canberra, Australia, plans to work with the Kennedy School of Government’s Project on American Indian Economic Development as well, according to David Haig, the current chair of the committee and a professor of organismic and evolutionary biology...
...wanted to design a Lakota-centric exhibit,” McLaughlin said, as she described the museum’s conscious effort to include a Native American in the process of producing the exhibit. “I was supposed to provide a non-[American] Indian perspective when necessary...
...houses more than six million cultural objects and 500,000 photographic records, constituting one of the oldest and largest collections of indigenous artifacts in the Western Hemisphere. Five hundred of the objects are on display in the permanent exhibit, called “The Hall of the North American Indian,” which was installed in 1990 and continues to be a home for academic research, along with educational and ceremonial programs. McLaughlin says that she carefully selected the artifacts for the Wiyohpiyata exhibit from among the museum’s vast collection of Native American pieces...