Asha's story: How access to opportunity can help close India's gender gap

Asha's story: How access to opportunity can help close India's gender gap

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Closing the rural broadband gap is critical everywhere, including India. Access to broadband means access to opportunity. Women like Asha, a network manager for AirJaldi in Sahibganj, are working to close the gender gap as well.

[Note on lack of masks in the video: production of this story took place in March 2020, before COVID-19 became a pandemic and spread widely throughout India.]

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