Women at work: In Haryana factory, tradition & crime clash with aspiration

All over India, women have been falling off the employment map at an alarming rate

Winter brought with it shorter days and the bleak realisation that her brief career was over. Her village was a couple of kilometres away from the bus stop at Saanpla in Haryana’s Jhajjar district. In the summer when the days were long, it seemed safe enough to walk back home from the bus stop alone. But by November it was already dark by the time she got off the bus and walking back home alone no longer seemed like such a great idea.

So despite the fact that she had undergone four months of training