India's #MeToo moment is still about the struggle to survive
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For other Indian women, it is a conflict to be innate (given womanlike foeticide), to be supposed in matrimony for themselves without giving a dowry, to get an education. An even bigger onslaught for many is to win a right to work, see friends and presumably even date.
The transformation for women’s rights in India diverges neatly from that in a West following a Harvey Weinstein liaison and a tear of a #MeToo campaign. That debate has speedy women globally to relate incidents of passionate nuisance or rape. Many Indian women, though, are still fighting for simple tellurian rights that are taken for postulated elsewhere.
For them, an occurrence of passionate nuisance in a workplace – as recounted by thousands of women and celebrities in #MeToo – could be called (without abating a stress of workplace harassment) a teenager difficulty. Even if they wanted to use amicable media to put opposite their experiences, many cannot. Only 30 per cent of internet users are women.
“The #MeToo debate has resonated with a prepared center category women who are employed, who brave to speak, and who are fighting for their space and are active on amicable media,” says Priya Varadarajan, a owner of Durga India, an NGO that works on women’s reserve in open spaces.
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