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Make room for women in the new normal -Sonalde Desai

-The Indian Express

The pandemic may have limited our ability to connect with the external world, but for several Indian women, isolation isn’t unfamiliar or new

When we tell our children and grandchildren about 2020, we will talk about a time when we shut ourselves in our homes to keep the world and the pandemic out. Our only contact with friends and relatives was via the telephone, and we only ventured out for essential activities, that too during daylight. We covered our faces and passed people on the street, refusing to make eye contact.

Men will talk about this as a year out of time, but perhaps many women will say, this is how we lived anyway. The pandemic was the first time it was recognised as a problem. As we think of emerging from this isolation and resuming our social lives, can we make sure both men and women reclaim public spaces and that the new normal for women does not look like the old normal?

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