Newsclick presents statistics on where women stand in society.
When it comes to women, things always get lost in a whirlpool of patriarchal archetypes. The focus is usually on the emotional, ‘nurturing’ and ‘motherly’ aspect of women. The issue of equal rights, wage gap and unpaid work is pushed in the background.
Why do we still need to fight a long way to achieve gender equality?
Here’s the answer with some strong facts and figures: