MUMBAI -- In India, the vast majority of working women, be they CEOs, nurses or schoolteachers, are legally protected from sexual harassment. But within political parties -- part of the machinery that drafts the legislation on such matters -- women do not have the same safeguards, something the Supreme Court recently made official.
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Indian harassment ruling sparks worries over women's place in politics
Top court says parties are not workplaces, exempting them from safeguards
India ranks 69th of 148 countries in terms of female political empowerment, according to the World Economic Forum. (Nikkei montage/source photos by Reuters)
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