Archive · 3 Oct 2026
Remote Work and Online Classes May Reinforce Restrictions on Women
A rape of a minor in a public park led students to protest about safety.
Lady Shri Ram College responded by moving classes online.
The author says online classes can help, but they can also keep women at home instead of making public places safer.
The article remembers people who walked at night to show that women should be able to use streets too.
It also says technology-related jobs once helped many women earn money and move around more freely.
The author worries that technology could now be used to tell women to stay indoors.
The main point is that digital options should not become the only answer to safety concerns.
After a rape of a minor in a public park, Lady Shri Ram College moved classes online following student protests about safety in public spaces.
The author argues that shifting education online can answer women’s safety concerns by keeping them indoors rather than addressing restrictions on their mobility.
The article recalls the Pinjra Tod movement and night walks as efforts to reclaim streets and challenge limits on women’s freedom.
The author says technology-enabled jobs, including BPO work, once helped young women gain financial independence and greater mobility.
The article warns that digital work and education can be helpful but may become restrictive when treated as the default solution.
- Who
- Lady Shri Ram College students and the college; the article also discusses women and young women more broadly.
- What
- The college shifted classes online after student protests about safety in public spaces, prompting criticism that digital solutions can restrict women’s mobility.
- When
- The article does not give a date; it refers to a recent rape incident and the author’s college years and the early 2000s.
- Where
- At Lady Shri Ram College and Aastha Kunj Park in the capital.
- Why
- The college shifted classes online in response to student concerns about safety in public spaces; the author argues this risks treating women’s confinement as the solution.
Digital solutions can support women
Digital solutions can restrict women
Moving classes online after safety concerns
Digital solutions can support women
Online classes can be a helpful response when students raise concerns about safety in public spaces.
Digital solutions can restrict women
The author argues that making classes online can keep women indoors instead of addressing limits on their ability to use public spaces.
Technology and women’s independence
Digital solutions can support women
The article says technology-enabled work and online education can be immensely helpful; BPO jobs also offered many young women financial independence and mobility.
Digital solutions can restrict women
The author warns that digital work and education can become a way to ask women to stay at home when they are treated as default solutions.
- College
- Lady Shri Ram College
- Park mentioned
- Aastha Kunj Park
- Incident
- A rape of a minor in a public park
- College response
- Classes shifted online after student protests about safety
- Movement recalled
- Pinjra Tod
- Earlier work trend
- The author says the BPO sector was expanding in the early 2000s, with more women entering the workforce and night shifts becoming common.