The Importance of Community in India

In rural Odisha and Uta Pradesh, women have very few friends. This limits their opportunities to share ideas for teak-on fairness. Women who venture out may be treated as prostitutes, vulnerable to abuse. Since harassment is common knowledge, women who work in public bring shame on all their kin. If businesses, buses and bureaucracies are overwhelmingly male, they may be seen as unsafe and inappropriate. Men lecture with impunity. Good girls dare at home. While those who step out are subjected to slander,. Girls may even restrict themselves, fearing sexual assault, shame and ostracism. Shame is so surveillance, sorry. Surveillance is so strong in rural Bihar, that young women may even rel