Poverty and the Pandemic

When the nationwide lockdown to curb the COVID outbreak was announced in March 2020, Sharda, a sixty-year old woman living in one of India’s six hundred thousand villages, had little to worry about. She owned a farm, and  for years, the farm had been the source of livelihood and food for her family....

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Rural women in a changing world

The last decade saw the barriers holding women back became less burdensome. We saw the rise of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. We witnessed better representation of women in political and corporate stages. We also heard women’s voices rise up in a global chorus, demanding...

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