Some pioneering women jurists in remote Indian villages are barely literate, but they know the law often ignores women. Sitting in a circle on the floor, they dispense justice in cases of divorce, abandonment, violence, rape and dowry demands.
A woman who was set afire and allowed to burn to death in front of the bustling Mumbai Railway Station is but one gruesome example of the abiding and even increasing violence against women in India where laws are enlightened but people are not.
The New York State Senate recessed without passing a bill that would have mandated insurance coverage for contraceptives, mammograms, bone density scans and pap smears. It mandated coverage for prostate screening but said women’s health needs more study.
This essay, written for an Indian women’s magazine, reveals extensive
similarities between U.S. cultural beliefs and those present in a nation
with dramatically different history and customs.
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