It is hard not to notice how much hard manual labour gets done by women in India. I'm not sure what to say about it, apart from noting its sad inevitability as families scratch out a livelihood in adverse circumstances. I remember reading a particularly touching story of the transformative effect tap water had on a woman in rural South Africa. She had walked 5km to fetch water twice a day, taking six hours. When running water was connected to her house she was suddenly liberated - she had six hours every day, forty two hours every week, to focus on bringing up her kids and earning money. Such a simple improvement in her life, but so transformative to her human existence. May such good things come to many more women who toil hard for little reward.
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