-Economic and Political Weekly A categorical distinction is facing rough weather--that between urban and rural. If we take just agriculture, there is so much of the outside world that comes in not just as external markets but as external inputs. Further, many of our villages barely qualify as rural if we were to take occupation alone. So the earlier line that separated the farmer from the worker in towns is slowly...
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Better-off ladies get hostel gate pass -Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Working women from the higher-income groups are now eligible to stay at government hostels, with income ceiling for applicants raised from Rs 30,000 a month to Rs 50,000 in urban areas and from Rs 25,000 to Rs 35,000 in rural areas. But with vacancies hard to come by and an unwritten rule favouring the less well-off between any two applicants, women with higher salaries may have to wait...
More »1.76L below age of 15 married in Gujarat -Himanshu Kaushik
-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: The Hindu Marriage Act clearly states that the bridegroom should have completed the age of 21 years and the bride 18 years at the time of the marriage. But going by the 2011 census figures, 1.06 lakh girls and 70,312 boys who have been married are below 15 years of age. The figures reveal that nearly one fourth of the married girls in the state are below...
More »Married women head 4% of families -Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India Among those currently married, barely 4% of all households are headed by women. In sharp contrast, women-headed households constitute nearly three-fourths of those headed by a widowed person, about two-thirds of those headed by separated people and about 60% among those who are divorced. Given the fact that women vastly outnumber men in each of these three categories, that's not surprising. Among the larger states, the proportion of...
More »Widowed before they’re old enough to marry, life is a battle for these girls -Sravani Sarkar
-Hindustan Times Bhopal: Shanti Dhakad of Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district got married when she was 13. Six years later, her husband died in an accident, forcing the illiterate Dhakad into manual labour to raise her three children. Thousands of kilometres away, Leelabati Shaw, now in her late twenties, was forced to work as a maid in Kolkata after losing her husband when she was 18. "Life is tough for a teenage widow. Tracking...
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