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Full video: How will we tackle such extremeties? || Acharya Prashant, TedX (2023)
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00:00Female labor participation rate 25% worse still it is falling education levels among
00:06women are increasing their labor participation rate is falling over the last 20 years it
00:10has actually fallen two decades back the proportion of women working was more than what it is
00:16today women are withdrawing from workplaces 73% of them even if they continue to work
00:21they leave their jobs after work and that's not really an informed and voluntary choice
00:26it is to do with the social conditions and the cultural conditioning a lot we talk of
00:31farmer suicides and that's a very tragic thing right the newspapers are all full of farmer
00:36suicides and that is something we must address obviously but what about the housewives and
00:41does anybody bother to inquire what our cultural institutions are doing to the woman to the
00:46point that she is compelled to die by suicide and we are missing that as as young students
00:52when you talk to each other I'm asking you do you take up these issues do these form
00:56a part of your daily conversations they hardly do

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