This career breakthrough came after Ms Patel found out about Indore-based Samaan Society, one of several Indian non-profit organisations training women in non-traditional livelihoods (NTLs).

What’s at stake is not marriage itself, but the patriarchal structure that historically ... them for financial security or social status, it challenges this traditional identity.

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