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

Birthrate among U.S. women rises for first time in seven years

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Here's another sign that the economy is rebounding: More people are having babies. The rate of births among women ages 15 to 44 ticked up 1% from 2013 to 2014. That's the first increase since 2007, the beginning of the recession, according to a study released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics. The 3.98 million total births in 2014 were the most since 2010. Carl Haub, a senior demographer for the Population Reference Bureau, said he wasn't surprised by the federal findings. Though the increase in fertility rate is small, he said, it could be indicative of a shiftin