SYDNEY, Australia, Jul 24 (IPS) – Sixteen-year-old Suhana Khan had just completed her grade 10 exams in March, when India imposed a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. Since then, she has been spending her mornings and evenings doing household chores, from cooking and cleaning to fetching drinking water from the tube well.
SYDNEY, Australia, Jul 24 (IPS) – Sixteen-year-old Suhana Khan had just completed her grade 10 exams in March, when India imposed a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. Since then, she has been spending her mornings and evenings doing household chores, from cooking and cleaning to fetching drinking water from the tube well. Read the full story, “It was Meant to Be a Ground-breaking Year for Gender Equality but COVID-19 Widened Inequalities”, on globalissues.org →