Talk:Rekha Pande

Like resume

There are many promotional statements, such as "an internationally well-known scholar", "with the intellectual ability to offer both a theoretically and practically-grounded view", "she is a well-known and well published academic scholar", "she has thirty five years of teaching experience", "she has a large amount of experience working..." and so on. These are stated as if they were the author's opinion, not attributed to any independent source, and they should be re-written in a more encyclopedic tone. --Gronk Oz (talk) 11:19, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Weird publishing history

Pande has a seemingly weird publishing history, if our list is to be believed. Gyan/Kalpaz are known to plagiarise works and stick a name on it; IGI are a vanity press; Cambridge Scholars are not at all what many people think and have had a rough ride at WP:RSN. There are also a lot of very obscure journal papers, some of which may be predatory publishers. Have we actually checked this out to verify (a) they really are written by her and (b) they're not pseudo-academic stuff? - Sitush (talk) 05:41, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

I've removed the list of journal articles, partly because of the issues you note, but mostly because I think it was too detailed and read like a CV. Better to focus on what is actually notable about this person. Article needs further work on tone, sourcing, format of booklist. Tacyarg (talk) 08:22, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Contributions

Rekha Pande has worked with India's national and state government organizations, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations. Her research is from the perspective of cultural studies and feminism. It covers diverse areas such as social movements, gender construction, religious and cultural aspects, and women's movements in India. She is also an interlocutor of teaching and learning practices, its reconstitution within the classroom, university structures, and through national and international professional bodies. In 2019, she was invited by the National Commission for Women as a National Resource Person for its Gender Sensitization and Gender Development programs.

Rekha Pande's various single-authored and edited books and numerous articles show her feminist research orientation to explore multiple aspects of women's issues and the cultural history of women. She has published twenty-four books and approximately 200 papers in National and International Journals, Proceedings, and Book chapters.

Rekha Pande has been the National Core Group member of the Mahila Samakhya programme (Women's Empowerment), Government of India. As part of this program, she was the Executive Council member of the Mahila Samakhya programme in Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat in the first term and Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Bihar during the second term. She has been a member of the Feminist Jurisprudence Committee in the National Commission for Women. She was also appointed as a Core Advisory Group member for Sensitization and Capacity Building towards Eliminating Child Labor in Andhra Pradesh. She was nominated as the Peace Ambassador' for the South Asia region by the International Women's Peace Group, Korea, in 2016. She also served as a National Resource Person for the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the Capacity Building of Women Managers in Higher Education. She is an Erudite Scholar by the Kerala Government for Gender Sensitization and Research on Gender Issues. She is a member of the International Advisory Council for International Feminist Journal of Politics.

She has been involved with working on the issue of violence. She also pays attention to the feminization of technology. Some of the areas that she focuses on include girl child, Gender violence, and Globalization. Her intellectual effort in academia, professional service, and activism has been to transgress and bridge borders, key among them being between disciplines, periods, theory- praxis, and the Global South and North.

• Comment There is no dates on the this. It seems almost stream of conciousness stuff, entirely unsuitable for a WP:BLP article. No links on it either. Nothing flows from one to other. No real context of when she started and why she went a particular direction. Tone issues. scope_creep^Talk 09:50, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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