The Gender Resource Centre

Convenor: Dr. Sunetra Mitra, Assistant Professor, Department of History

Members: Dr Debarati Chakraborty, SACT, Department of Bengali

Smt.Moumita De, SACT, Department of Human Rights

The Gender Resource Centre of the college has been functioning since November 2016. It has worked in collaboration with the Internal Complaints Committee of the college, as well as the IQAC. It is a multidisciplinary nodal platform having a practical as well as a disciplinary approach. Its goal is to work towards creating responsible, confident women who can empower themselves in the journey of life.

Activities
The activities of the Gender Resource Centre range from collaborating in organizing gender and health awareness programmes, developing the Gender Resources in the College Library, as well as organizing academic programmes. Activities like Workshops on Legal Rights, Menstrual Health and Hygiene, Sexual Violence, Sexual Minorities at the Workplace, Self Defence and Child Sexual Abuse are arranged in collaboration with organizations like Talash and Rahi Foundation, and also with the help of experts and activists – designed to sensitize students about their rights and responsibilities as women.

To mark out Gender Studies as a distinct and significant academic discipline, the Centre has invited academicians who have done research on Women’s Studies and related areas. The GRC also organizes special research talk and presentation by the teaching faculty.

The Gender Resource Corner at the Library, now a part of the Gender Resource Centre, is a separate space to showcase books, journals and other research compilations related to gender issues. Books, journals and pamphlets obtained from and related to organizations like the West Bengal Commission for Women, School of Women’s Studies (Jadavpur University), and Sanhita Gender Resource Centre and other NGOs are stocked and displayed in this corner. Film shows on these themes are often organized by the collaborative NGOs.

GRC 2018_19
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