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No toilets? No excuse: India’s top court orders gender equality in navy

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New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation India’s top court on Tuesday ordered the navy to treat male and female officers equally, rejecting the government’s argument that women could not be sailors because there were no separate bathrooms on ships as “illusory”.  The Supreme Court also instructed the government to give all women officers permanent contracts with […]