Big gains for women still a small step towards filling top roles

Across the world, women have had to wage protracted campaigns to secure the basic rights of voting and running for public office. In India, these were available to women from the very start under our Constitution. But despite equality on paper, social conditions exist that hold women back from rising to decision-making positions. Though the needle has moved, anomalies remain stark.

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