RESEARCH - Data analysis, field studies, academic research, interviews, expert-groups, individual and group feedback. This powers effective models and action, to combat gender inequality.
ADVOCACY - Our advocacy stems from the in-depth research by peer-to-peer networks. Following plans and resolutions, however small or big, local or national, powers our agenda, motivation and resilience.
ACTION - Empowerment models created for individuals and groups. Implementing self-empowerment. Building resources and amplifying the music of new female talent, without depending on corporate and institutional sponsorship, nor control.
2021 - The following slides depict the extent of gender inequality in music. A brief introduction about our mission and the target audience. FEMWAV's manifesto and why empowerment is vital for the arts and society. All the amazing female talent featured on our website. And most important, the millions of girls and women who still remain outside the access and possibility. In effect, there is no doubt that empowering women and girls leads to a better society. FEMWAV is voluntary yet exemplary for what we as a team have achieved, since 2019, without any sponsorship or institutional aid.
As the famous saying goes, “women’s rights are human rights.” That is to say, all women are entitled to all of the rights. Yet in India millions of girls and women are denied the right and opportunity to create and participate in culture – Simply because of gender and class. Privileged artists, musicians and professionals (including women) in India are then compelled, if not obliged, to make new opportunities and empathy for those not so privileged. Who? For the thousands if not millions of females who could also be artists, singers, DJs, rappers, producers, engineers, managers, writers, video makers, curators, bosses of their given agency!
Our struggle and mission is far from completion, yet we remain unshaken and focused - powered by equality and feminism. About empowerment that helps individual women take hold of their present and future. Empowerment which embodies individuals, communities and commonly shared cultures. That girl or woman who comes everyday to our house to cook, wash and clean, may also be as deserving, as talented if given a chance, and perhaps become as famous as the diva you so admire?
2022
Fembot5 was launched by an anonymous writer and activist based in India. She was compelled to put out a rough manifesto in early 2017. The groundwork for a field-study on gender inequality in the culture industry of India. A first of it's kind effort, the focus being music and the gender correlation in India. Six essays were published over time, with the help of several contributors from India and outside. Extensive and a bit exhaustive in it's span, packed with data, info-graphs, essays, academic research, videos and peer to peer reviews.
Fembot5 was a preface, call it a 'targeted challenge' - to understand the scope and problems of empowerment solutions and models, specific to India. With clear evidence, the essays explain why institutional, corporate and individual patronage is unable to combat gender inequality - further perpetuating bias, cherry-picking, vested business pressure and elitism which sequesters the scope of empowerment itself. By 2019, Fembot5 on Wordpress had gathered over 533,000 page views. Certain key changes followed, dissolving Fembot5, and creating a new entity called FEMWAV in June 2019. The core team, activated new plans and an overall direction - to combat inequality of gender in the music industry and cultural specter of India. Read all previous FEMBOT pages (2017-2019)
