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Ep 263: The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Women's Jobs Are Not Easy to Handle

The family structure is so based on exploiting women's labor and their child rearing capacities that people feel very threatened. There are simply no jobs for women once they have taken a back seat for, say, ten years. So a lot of women then compromise and take the easiest jobs to handle. They become school teachers. But very few women have the courage left by then or the sense of self worth to really retrain themselves.

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