{"id":492156,"date":"2022-05-18T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=492156"},"modified":"2022-05-18T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T07:14:20","slug":"braking-stereotypes-the-women-taking-over-indias-electric-vehicle-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/braking-stereotypes-the-women-taking-over-indias-electric-vehicle-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Braking&#8217; stereotypes: The women taking over India&#8217;s electric vehicle drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pratibha Kumbhar, a 35-year-old mother of two, is making up for lost time. <\/p>\n<p>Trained in soldering, she aspired to pursue a career in electrical work but hemmed saris for her husband&#8217;s tailor shop in the west Indian city of Pune until two years ago, when she found work in the country&#8217;s fast-expanding electric vehicle (EV) sector.<\/p>\n<p>Kumbhar&#8217;s ambition, stalled by motherhood and safety worries about working in a roadside electrical shop, has now taken wings as she assembles circuits for EV speedometers at a factory in Pune &#8211; her first job as a formal worker with fixed wages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pratibha Kumbhar, a 35-year-old mother of two, is making up for lost time. Trained in soldering, she aspired to pursue a career in electrical work but hemmed saris for her husband&#8217;s tailor shop in the west Indian city of Pune until two years ago, when she found work in the country&#8217;s fast-expanding electric vehicle (EV) sector. Kumbhar&#8217;s ambition, stalled by motherhood and safety worries about working in a roadside electrical shop, has now taken wings as she assembles circuits for EV speedometers at a factory in Pune &#8211; her first job as a formal worker with fixed wages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}