Tips for Teachers October 8, 2020
Women Run This Show in India
In the Nupi Keithel trading center in Manipur, India all 5000 of the vendors and shopkeepers in the market are women. True or false? [True.]
Historically in Manipur, why did women usually take care of both households and trade? [Manipur was in a kingdom often at war; able-bodied men served the kingdom and were absent during wars,]
When women staged a protest over the death of a young woman in 2004 in Manipur, they took aim at the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, a military power that led to brutality against women. What was the outcome of the protest? [Their protest ended in the closing of the local military base.]
Old patriarchal traditions are falling around the world. They are withering away. [What do readers think of this statement?]
