How women in rural India turned courage into capital

On #internationalruralwomenday, we look at photographs from P. Sainath’s exhibition “Visible Work, Invisible Women: Women and Work in Rural India.” Shot across ten Indian states between 1993 and 2002, these images document the labour of rural women — work that remains largely unrecognized and uncompensated in official economic measures. Rural women constitute a significant portion of India’s agricultural workforce, yet their contributions are routinely excluded from labour statistics and policy