Posted on 03/19/2024 7:58:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Drought is driving poor Indian women into exploitative sugar cane work in the central state of Maharashtra, with many of the migrant labourers opting to undergo unnecessary hysterectomies to work even harder, research showed on Feb 7.
Years of failed monsoons, extreme heat and droughts have led residents of Beed, a district in the top sugar-producing state to leave and become day labourers on plantations, said the report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), a London-based think-tank.
The research found more than half of the Beed women who had gone to work on sugar plantations had undergone surgery to remove their uteruses compared with less than a fifth from households that had stayed in the district.
More like are given.
How is it that Marxism has not saved them?
A rather sad state of affairs. In an overly populated region of Planet Earth, the women are using surgery to work harder. The side affect is permanent birth control. Alive yet not able to reproduce. And desperate just to be able to eat food. It may be that India has way far too many people for the geographical and economic realities.
In the next five year, India will surpass China as the most populous country on the planet.
I want to be a climate migrant when the Texas summer arrives.
Sorry, that already happened.
I’d say definitely given, especially in the cases of the lower caste women.
Yes indeed. anytime I’m exposed to CO2, I want a hysterectomy
This is one of those articles that does not pass the smell test/ sanity test. It’s based on some ill defined survey, who knows who did the survey or who responded to it. And note that there is nothing new about the fact that a hysterectomy stops menstruation, that has been true for hundreds of years. Overpopulation might be the answer. There has been forced sterilization in India for many years, see “A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5211.A_Fine_Balance
Poor women can somehow afford expensive surgery, just to work harder!
Somehow, I do not believe, this is widespread phenomenon.
Just another media exaggeration!
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