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Motherhood in the pits - Means of livelihood or road to death? |
Scavenging in abandoned coal mines
Hazaribagh, coal mines, Jharkhand
Change in production technology in coal industry has had a great gender Impact. This change effectively excluded and marginalized women, the extent of exclusion depending on how men’s interests, needs and hopes are disproportionately represented. The absence of opportunities in other sectors of the economy in mining region such as Hazaribagh, especially the loss of commons and the decline in agriculture have further affected women.