International Women's Day 2021: App Aims To Empower Female Farmers with Weather, Climate Data
The Weather Channel
3/8/2021
Jan Wesner Childs
When thousands of female farmers joined massive protests against new agricultural laws in India, government officials told them they weren't welcome.
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“Why should we go back? This is not just the men’s protest," Jasbir Kaur, a 74-year-old farmer from Rampur in western Uttar Pradesh, told Time. "We toil in the fields alongside the men. Who are we — if not farmers?”
On International Women's Day, March 8, and months into the protests, the women are still there, fighting for their rights alongside their male counterparts.