STORIES FOR CHANGE: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS

Prevalent beliefs that assign attributes like meekness and weakness to women, limit their resources towards individual growth and wellbeing. This stereotyping provides fertile ground for the violation of human rights. As these stereotypes populate print and digital media, the catalogues of the lives of the ordinary on the Facebook pages of Humans of Bombay, Humans of Pakistan, Humans of Karachi and Humans of Bangalore provide alternative perspectives which can challenge such stereotypes and coax people into gradually discarding them. This work performs a thematic analysis on a subset of such stories, narrated by women, on these pages.