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Cultural Barriers in India Impede Women’s Legal Right to Inherit Land

By Ashok Sircar and Diana Fletschner As their husbands, fathers, and brothers migrate to cities in search of work, women across India have become the backbone of the country's agricultural sector.  Today,  after decades of male urban migration, nearly 80 percent of all rural women in India labor in the fields. A study released Sunday by UN Women India and [...]