{"id":299883,"date":"2017-03-07T13:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T13:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=299883"},"modified":"2017-03-07T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T13:34:21","slug":"india-minister-slammed-for-saying-women-need-protection-from-hormonal-outbursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=299883","title":{"rendered":"India: Minister slammed for saying women need protection from &#8216;hormonal outbursts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indians are miffed with their Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi. And why not?<\/p>\n<p>In a rather bizarre statement made on a television show, Gandhi defended the imposition of early curfews on girls&#8217; hostels (known as dormitories elsewhere) across the country, saying young women needed protection from their own &#8220;hormonal outbursts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When questioned by a female college student on the rationale behind 6 p.m. curfews in ladies&#8217; hostels, the minister said: &#8220;When you are 16 or 17 you are also hormonally very challenged. So to protect you from your own hormonal outbursts perhaps a <em>lakshman rekha <\/em>(boundary line) is drawn. It really is for your own safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, she was invited to speak on gender equality and women empowerment around International Women&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popout\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"managed-yt-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JouAY4JT8Hk?enablejsapi=1&amp;\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, Twitterati slammed her for the &#8220;regressive&#8221; comments.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them even reminded her of her own past. Gandhi is married in India&#8217;s oldest political family, the Nehru-Gandhis, and had met her husband, the late Sanjay Gandhi, as a teenager.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-299895 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"485\" height=\"572\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-299896\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2-1.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"502\" height=\"562\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-299897\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"501\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Mashable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indians are miffed with their Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi. And why not? In a rather bizarre statement made on a television show, Gandhi defended the imposition of early curfews on girls&#8217; hostels (known as dormitories elsewhere) across the country, saying young women needed protection from their own &#8220;hormonal outbursts.&#8221; When questioned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}