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Envisioning a World Where Women Inherit Property, not Poverty

By Udita Chatterjee I have dedicated my personal and professional life to strengthening women’s rights to own and inherit land in my native India. So there was both irony and sadness in my mother’s voice when she called me with some news. My mother had learned that her two brothers had convened a meeting to divide up their elderly mother’s estate. My mother had neither been invited to the meeting, nor informed of their plans. Their beautiful childhood home, [...]