{"id":42257,"date":"2022-03-08T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T09:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/mar\/08\/women-of-the-wild-instagram-india-female-wildlife-experts-international-womens-day-aoe"},"modified":"2022-03-08T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T09:02:41","slug":"women-of-the-wild-the-platform-giving-indias-nature-experts-a-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42257","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Women of the wild\u2019: the platform giving India\u2019s nature experts a voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frustrated by a lack of female representation, film-maker Akanksha Sood Singh set up an Instagram account to showcase \u2018the untold stories of women working for science and nature\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish these things wouldn\u2019t happen to anyone,\u201d says Akanksha Sood Singh, a wildlife film-maker based in Delhi. \u201cBut if it has happened, this is a safe space for women to come and to share their experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The safe space Sood Singh is referring to is the Instagram account <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/womenofthewildindia\">Women of the Wild \u2013 India<\/a>, which showcases \u201cthe untold stories of women working for science and nature\u201d. The platform gives them a chance to promote their expertise, but also somewhere to share their experiences of working in what are often male-dominated fields where sexual harassment can often feature.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/mar\/08\/women-of-the-wild-instagram-india-female-wildlife-experts-international-womens-day-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frustrated by a lack of female representation, film-maker Akanksha Sood Singh set up an Instagram account to showcase \u2018the untold stories of women working for science and nature\u2019\u201cI wish these things wouldn\u2019t happen to anyone,\u201d says Akanksha Sood Singh,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2460,65,646,59,62,1200,70,60,61,281,617,1850,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-discrimination-at-work","category-environment","category-gender","category-global-development","category-india","category-international-womens-day","category-malaysia","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-work-careers","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42258,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42257\/revisions\/42258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}