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Mumbai: Casual sexism prevalent at alarming levels in IIT-Bombay, finds survey

Student magazine study adds strength to the alleged prevalence of "casual sexism" at IIT-B

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Even as the ongoing criticism levelled against IIT-Bombay's casual sexism rages on, a new survey by the students' media body at the institution has confirmed these accusations. References to groups of women as "hariyali", calling an effeminate man as "meetha" and using the term "non-male" for a woman whose appearance doesn't follow conventional notions of female beauty are all regular phenomenon at the IIT-B campus, the survey stated.

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