{"id":57648,"date":"2023-08-18T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/18\/indias-supreme-court-issues-handbook-against-use-of-archaic-terms-for-women"},"modified":"2023-08-18T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T02:00:36","slug":"indias-supreme-court-issues-handbook-against-use-of-archaic-terms-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57648","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s supreme court issues handbook against use of archaic terms for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harmful language and stereotypes about women can lead to distortion of law, says chief justice of India<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s supreme court has issued a handbook for judges urging them to shun words like seductress, vamp, spinster and harlot when talking about women.<\/p>\n<p>Archaic terms that disparage women and perpetuate gender stereotypes can still be routinely heard in Indian courts long after falling into disuse in other countries. It is not unusual for a wife to be described as chaste or ladylike, and sexual harassment is routinely trivialised as \u201cEve-teasing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/18\/indias-supreme-court-issues-handbook-against-use-of-archaic-terms-for-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmful language and stereotypes about women can lead to distortion of law, says chief justice of IndiaIndia\u2019s supreme court has issued a handbook for judges urging them to shun words like seductress, vamp, spinster and harlot when talking about women&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"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":[646,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57648","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57649,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57648\/revisions\/57649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}