Q.1) Can you tell us about the WDC and what you stand for?
Shreyanshi Bansal: To promote the general well-being of the society and
provide a safer environment for women is what the WDC stands for.
Harshita Rathi: The WDC does not just focus on women, they aim for
the growth and development of the entire society.
Q.2) What is your flagship event?
From the past three years, WDC has been collaborating with an NGO
named MAJLIS. The NGO comprises of female lawyers who hold
interactive sessions and inform everyone about the basic rights of
women, divorce systems and the various issues to be tackled.
Another event they host each year is “expressions.” They provide a
platform to everyone to voice their opinions.
Shreyanshi Bansal: We get to learn and know so many different
perspectives on a particular topic. It is so important to learn as well as
unlearn things.
Q.3) We have noticed that you’ve been promoting the
normalisation of Breastfeeding through your campaign, can you
speak more about what your goal is?
Shreyanshi Bansal: Over here there is nothing synthetic or artificial. It’s
the pure relation between a mother and her child.
They aim to encourage India to rise out of its taboo of breastfeeding.
They believe that the only person who has the power to decide whether
to breastfeed a child in public is the mother. The society should make a
woman feel comfortable about it.
Q.4) As our college has taken the shift to online classes and
events, how have you moulded yours to be engaging via
zoom?
WDC is planning to conduct webinars on a multitude of topics and
issues this academic year.
Online platforms have been beneficial for them since they can target a
wider range of audience through it.
They aim at inviting speakers from all over India. WDC has a positive
outlook towards this situation and they are adjusting pretty well with this
situation.
They believe that the more the awareness they spread, the closer they
are to their goal.
Q.5) With the work WDC does, what do you wish to achieve by
the end of this academic year?
Since people confuse WDC as a women-oriented committee only, there
are hardly any men who apply to be the part of the committee. They
want to make sure that people are aware of the fact they aim for an
equality driven society and work for the upliftment of women and men.
They focus on gender equity as a whole.
Shreyanshi Bansal: We not only want people to attend the webinars, but
we also want them to consciously act on whatever they learnt.
Q.6) What are the other issues and so called “taboos” you will
be focusing on?
Dhruvi Wani: Other than breastfeeding, we want to focus on making
people and specially women comfortable with speaking openly about
menstruation.
Work place harassment which takes place in all sections of the society is
another issue they want to focus on.
Q.7) What else do you aim to normalise?
The WDC aim at normalising the little things for now.
Harshita Rathi: Things like, it’s okay for women to have body and facial
hair.
They also aim at breaking stereotypes men face on a daily basis such as
the entire concept of toxic masculinity.
They want to help and teach men and women to take a stand for
themselves too.
Q.8) Could you give us a brief on what kind of workshops do
you conduct?
The WDC conduct informative seminars where people from different
NGOs speak up about women issues and how to tackle them.
Shreyanshi Bansal: We also hold workshops based on violence of the
society and understanding the gender spectrum
They are also going to hold panel discussions this year consisting of
various social activists, authors and life coaches.
They hold self-defence workshop at least once each semester.
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