Mahima Dutt Sharma rolls her eyes when men make excuses to gawk at her inside the booth where she checks tickets at India’s only interstate train station run entirely by women. This helps explain the fascination with the all-women crew “manning” Gandhinagar as superintendents, conductors and station masters. Most Indian women are not working at train stations but undertaking domestic work or childcare. Even women with jobs are often expected to give them up when they get married or have children. There is also talk of a creche, still a rarity in India, so women can bring their children to work.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 08, 2018 07:52 UTC