September 2023

Assistive technologies (AT) are helpful for employees who are striving to maximise their potential but are imperative for the inclusion of employees with disabilities. The idea is to facilitate support and prevent work-related injuries. AT can allow people with disabilities (PwD) to carry out tasks, interact with computers at work, reduce social and environmental barriers, […]

How to make your online recruitment process more inclusive? The words diversity and inclusion are often thrown around when it comes to conversations about recruitment. What can we do to make our recruitment process more inclusive? How do we make sure that our recruitment process isn’t unconsciously biased? Questions like these were just getting answers

Meet Vineet Saraiwala, the founder of Atypical Advantage, a job portal that helps recruiters find job-seekers with disabilities in the pandemic. Vineet himself suffers from a rare genetic disorder which makes him uniquely placed to understand career-related problems of people with disabilities. He hopes to change the discourse of finding a job based on skills

Last month, Meena Kumari, a member of the UP State Commission for Women, said that girls should not be given cell phones as it leads to rapes. She also blamed the mothers of such women whose carelessness in not monitoring their daughters is leading to these crimes. All her comments alluded to the fact that

In 2014, Youtube launched a video upload feature for their app, wherein 5-10% of the videos were uploaded upside-down. The developers couldn’t figure out why so many people were getting it wrong. They then realised that they had inadvertently designed the app for right-handed users. They failed to consider that there would be left-handed users

Be it Kantaben’s very obvious disgust at the implication that Saif Ali Khan could be gay, or the trope of cis-gender men cross-dressing in Humshakals or even Abhishek Bachchan’s very stereotypical portrayal in Dostana (India’s first film that portrayed the LGBTQIA+ community in an apparently positive light) Bollywood has had infinite instances of demeaning and