Since 2015, more than 11,000 women married to Indians abroad have approached India’s foreign missions with complaints of domestic crises. Many cases involve allegations of fraud and abuse. But in most instances, overseas officials are able to do only so much to help.
Violence against women is legitimized by social norms, beliefs and institutions.
There is a growing focus on generating evidence on violence against informal women workers across the world.
The agriculture sector as a whole has developed and emerged immensely by empowering men with technology.
It was the tragic death by suicide that has laid bare the daily trauma of the three sisters from a landless household married to an affluent family with demands for dowry from impoverished parents.
The journey from unemployment or employment to self-employment is liberating in multiple ways for the Indian woman.
Agriculture is the largest employer and it provides employment to both Men and Women but the ratio of their employment in the sector is not significantly different.