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The nobility of women: Indian workplaces could do with more of it

Overlooked in so much discussion of women in the workplace is that they have just the right set of skills for workplaces in the 21st century

Sexual harassment at workplace
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Rahul Jacob
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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