India Minister Asks Feminists to Ease Up
NEW DELHI — India’s minister in charge of women’s affairs Monday opened a national women’s conference by telling delegates not to make a “national obsession” of sex-based grievances.
“You can have a complaint and that could be looked into, but there is no use building up a grievance,” Minister for Human Resource Development P. V. Narasimha Rao, 66, told a conference organized by the ministry’s Department of Women.
The two-day conference is considering ways to implement laws to improve the lot of Indian women. Millions of Indian women, who often do heavy manual labor in industry, construction and agriculture.
Sign up for Essential California
The most important California stories and recommendations in your inbox every morning.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
