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India and China seem united in gender discrimination

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Shyamal Majumdar New Delhi
India “celebrated” yet another International Women’s Day last week (March 8), with everyone advising everyone else on how to improve the lot of women. The advisories, publicised in sundry public platforms, read almost the same as those made last year and the years before. But they do serve a useful purpose: At least they remind us year after year of the challenges that still lie ahead.

The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap report 2020 lists quite a few of them, and the findings remain deeply worrying, as the condition of women in large fringes of Indian society has been described
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