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• Women (South Asia)

  South Asia: “We need to empower home-based workers by investing in more co-operatives. Unity builds strength and resilience”

  27 July 2020, by BROWNE David, DAVE Janhavi

  South Asia is home to over 50 million home-based workers, most of whom are women. From agarbhatti incense stick rollers in India to piecework garment workers in Sri Lanka, they contribute immensely to national economies in addition to their families and local communities as working from home (…)

• Women (South Asia)

  Feminism and power in the postcolonial societies of South Asia

  22 May 2019, by NASIR Zakia

  Feminists are concerned about women being subjected to power apparatuses, which are used even in the so-called liberal world. And still today in the developing world, power is used to silence women with diverse methods, especially in the context of the subcontinent. Sometimes the power of (…)