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The Fifth Floor: India's women-led households

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Widow Maan Kanwar

02/06/2023 GMT

India's women-led households

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The numbers of women-led households is rising, so what impact will this have on India?

The numbers of women-led households is rising, so what impact will this have on India's traditionally conservative patriarchal society?

BBC Delhi explores the steady rise in female-led households in their documentary "Women in Charge: Is India Changing?" From widows to the growing number of women whose husbands have left home to find work, these women are assuming control of household finances, their children's education and local communities.  Divya Arya discusses how this 'mini revolution' is affecting India's traditionally patriarchal society.

Vietnam's migrant workers in Taiwan
Taiwan relies heavily on legal migrant workers from South East Asia for its economy.  A recent film highlighted the tragic death of one illegal migrant, and raised the issue of the lives of these migrant workers in Taiwan.  Tran Vo from BBC Vietnamese and Benny Lu from BBC Chinese collaborated to look into the challenges, and sometimes tragedies, faced by these workers. 

Russians in Serbia 
Between February and November last year, 140,000 Russians officially moved to Serbia after the invasion of Ukraine.  BBC Serbian was keen to find out more about the impact both for the Russians themselves and the local population, as Jovana Georgievski reports.  

Syria's deadly truffle harvest 
It was a bumper year for desert truffles in Syria, attracting many to hunt for them in remote areas. But around 250 truffle hunters have died, some from landmines, but most in attacks by gunmen.  Alex Wright and Mina Al-Lami from BBC Monitoring have been investigating these deaths. 

(Photo: Widow and deputy village council head Maan Kanwar in Rajasthan wearing traditional colourful clothing. Credit: BBC)

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