· December, 2012

Stories about Women-Gender from December, 2012

Women Banned from Using Mobile Phones in Indian Villages

  9 December 2012

A village council in the Indian state of Bihar has banned women from using mobile phones because it is “debasing the social atmosphere” and leading couples to elope. Similar bans have also been seen in other parts of India.

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