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Ep. 132: Women at Work

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Why More Women Don't Work

Jyoti Singh Pandey's father sold his ancestral land to pay for her education. She wanted to be a physiotherapist and he had two sons, two younger sons after her. He never once said, I need money for your dowry. So patriarchy is about gender, but it need not always be gendered. You have feminist men and you have patriarchal women.

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