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Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts

Sunday, March 14, 2010

"Why does a successful woman...

...always have to feel indebted to a husband or father for 'allowing' her to pursue a career?"

Here is an excerpt from Namita Bhandare's column in Mint:
We have no measure to track their progressions and we know also that success in exam results, particularly at the school level, is no guarantee for “success” in life. But given that girls seem to be better than boys at cracking the exam code, and have been doing so for years, wouldn’t it be logical to presume that we should be seeing more women in middle to senior leadership positions?

Read the column in full here.