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India’s Female Scavengers Enslaved By Caste, Gender Discrimination

India’s Female Scavengers Enslaved By Caste, Gender Discrimination

by The Daily Eye Team March 11 2016, 5:36 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secs

New legislation in India to crack down on the practice of forcing mainly the poorest women to clear other people’s excreta will have little impact unless deeply entrenched sexism and caste bias are changed, activists said.Manual scavenging, a euphemism for disposing of faeces from dry toilets and open drains by hand, has long been an occupation thrust upon members of the Dalit group, traditionally the lowest ranked in India’s caste system.

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