Women marriage age in india articles
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KC Chiefs' Butker said marriage and motherhood are more important than work for most women
The commencement speaker at Kansas’s Benedictine College, a private Catholic liberal arts school, congratulated the women receiving degrees—and said most of them were probably more excited about getting married and having children. Harrison Butker, the kicker for the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, is getting attention for those and other comments last weekend in which he said some Catholic leaders were “pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America.” Butker, who’s...
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‘I want to decide my vote for myself’: how women are shaping India’s political landscape
Emboldened by the financial independence offered by self-help groups, women in rural Odisha are increasingly becoming a force politicians have to reckon withBasanti Sabar, 30, is a third-time voter. But this time round, as the eastern Indian state of Odisha goes to the polls in simultaneous general and assembly elections, the former migrant worker will make a crucial shift in the way she votes.In patriarchal rural India, who the family vote for is usually decided by the men. On 13 May, however,...
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Voices Of India’s Women Panchayat Leaders Resonate At UN Meet
NEW YORK, NY (IANS) – The inspiring stories of India’s elected women representatives of the Panchayati Raj institutions resonated in the hallowed halls of the United Nations Headquarters as three iconic grassroots leaders took the center stage on Friday at the Side Event titled ‘Localizing […]