Doctors can be super-heroes in white coats. Last year they wrote about their working conditions — long shifts, short sleep, bad food – to the state Human Rights Commission. Shifts in a stressful job can stretch to 48 straight hours. But when you’re short of five lakh doctors in the country, what choice do you […]
Government doctors work in trying conditions. The least they need is safety Read More »
Doctors can be super-heroes in white coats. Last year they wrote about their working conditions — long shifts, short sleep, bad food – to the state Human Rights Commission. Shifts in a stressful job can stretch to 48 straight hours. But when you’re short of five lakh doctors in the country, what choice do you
Government doctors work in trying conditions. The least they need is safety Read More »
When a significant proportion of women say they want to stay home, the message is clear: Gender stereotypes about unpaid care work and a woman’s place in it remain prevalent A woman makes fresh spices for her family of seven at a slum, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India(Burhaan Kinu/HT) Fifty-nine years ago when my mother, a
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When a significant proportion of women say they want to stay home, the message is clear: Gender stereotypes about unpaid care work and a woman’s place in it remain prevalent. Fifty-nine years ago when my mother, a full-fledged lawyer with a fledgling practice, got married, she declared that she would no longer work. In her
Indian women have no time to work outside the house Read More »