{"id":807,"date":"2004-12-10T06:54:06","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=807"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:16:47","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:16:47","slug":"female_mechanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/female_mechanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Female mechanics beating caste system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A35952-2004Dec4.html\" target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/femaleMechanic100x115.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"115\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>The Washington Post<\/em> has an encouraging story <em>(Thanks, Deepa)<\/em> about\nfemale mechanics in India that are successfully overcoming caste and gender restrictions:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>In taking on such an important role, the female mechanics have challenged\nfeudal notions of gender roles in village society, after centuries of prejudice\nand discrimination by members of upper castes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a long time people taunted us when we arrived with our tools,&#8221; Kabirdas\nsaid. &#8220;They shooed us away. The upper castes would say, &#8216;You untouchable\nwomen, stay away from our hand pump. What do you know other than making bread\nand collecting cow dung?&#8217;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But when the women began repairing the broken pumps promptly, they carved\nthemselves an important niche in the hierarchy of the water-scarce village. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A35952-2004Dec4.html\" target=\"new\">Low-caste\nIndians carve a niche<\/a> (free registration required) <\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has an encouraging story (Thanks, Deepa) about female mechanics in India that are successfully overcoming caste and gender restrictions: In taking on such an important role, the female mechanics have challenged feudal notions of gender roles in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/female_mechanic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}