BBC News
By Chinki Sinha
image captionFewer women are getting vaccinated compared to men in India
On a sweltering June afternoon, Madhu Kumari, a healthcare worker knocked on a door in Suraudha, a village tucked deep inside Bihar state. Her job: to enrol people for Covid jabs.
On seeing her, a few women sitting outside their houses across the street, laughed.
Moments later, a woman stormed out of the house, hurling abuses at Ms Madhu Kumari. I will make your life hell if you talk about the vaccine, Tetri Devi bellowed, before slamming the door on the healthcare worker s face.