Women in India: A long way to go
India got its first woman prime minister, Indira Gandhi, 40 years
ago and its first woman President, Pratibha Patil, this year. But
theirs is not the story of the common Indian woman. The past 60
years are a story of missed opportunities.... where despite a legal
framework, women have been reined in by a rigid, patriarchal
society.
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