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?]
