While on a visit home, 27-year-old Misfiqua was asked to contest the panchayat elections by the village women in December 2015. She agreed, on the condition that the women would study.

I’m sure you’ve heard that if you want to achieve a goal, you need to write it down. I know it sounds a bit cliché, but it actually does work. One of my studies, called "The Gender Gap and ...