Alice Evans on The Great Gender Divergence
Ideas of India
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The Role of Community Protection in Female Seclusion
communal violence has increased female seclusion, restricted women's mobility because of those fears. In Gujarat, where there was strong sexual violence, families increasingly policed women. And I don't think we can generalize or quantify it to say which is more important, labor demand or the seclusion. It's always going to be a sort of interaction between the two which varies according to local places.
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