India Minister Asks Feminists to Ease Up
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.
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