During lockdown many Indian women were isolated and suffered both domestic and economic abuse from the menin their families.
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The lockdown gave some men a chance to increase their control and coercion of women.
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi delivers the traditional Independence Day speech from the Red Fort in Delhi on August 15.
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The Indian prime minister’s rhetoric strayed a long way from reality.
An Indian woman sorts reusable items from a landfill on the outskirts of New Delhi in March 2021. Trash pickers sometimes toil alongside paid municipal sanitation workers and provide a vital service to cities. Their subsistence work is put at risk by smart city technologies.
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‘Smart’ solutions to urban solid waste are creating serious challenges for low-income women waste workers in India.
Planting paddy saplings in Patiala, India. Three-quarters of Indian farmers are women, but most don’t own their land.
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Most Indian farmers are women. But few own their land, and gender inequality limits their access to markets. These issues won’t be fixed by recent agricultural reforms; in fact, they may get worse.
Three women sorting out garbage in Dharavi, India, in 2013.
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Cultural sensibilities around feminine hygiene products are contributing to a growing environmental crisis.
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Farmers and their supporters are bringing Delhi and other cities to a standstill.