Chhattisgarh textbook blames working women for unemployment in India!

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Atrocious! In the day and age where women are walking with men shoulder to shoulder, a textbook blaming women for unemployment is terrible! According to the textbook, women have begun working which has led to a drop in employment leading many men to remain unemployed. The textbook also adds that since independence, the level of unemployment in the country has drastically increased as women have begun to step out of their houses and work. The passage, which appears in a 10th standard Hindi textbook is appalling and left the teachers fuming. It was a young 24-year olf teacher who identified t

Maharashtra dithers on plea to lift curb on women in Haji Ali dargah

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The Maharashtra government has washed its hands of a public interest litigation petition against the restrictions on women entering the sanctum sanctorum of the famous Haji Ali Dargah here. “The State has not filed a reply so far, and it does not want to file [one],” a Division Bench of Justices V.M. Kanade and B.P. Colabawalla said at the hearing on Friday. Referring to a letter of Mohammed Arif Naseem Khan, former Minister for Minority Development, the Bench said: “From the tenor of the letter, it is clear that the State government wants to sit on the fence… .” The petition, file