“I have a question,” says a softly spoken woman named Mary down the phone to me one Sunday morning. “If men can do it, why can women not do it?”
That question, to my feminist British ears, is a rhetorical one. If men can do it, women can do it; even if the playing fields are uneven, the possibility always exists.
But Mary is coming at this from a different perspective. A 30-year-old Indian flyweight boxer who genuinely warrants use of the term ‘against all odds’, Mary grew up in a poor family in Manipur, a state in the north-east of India where women are expected to follow a traditional path. A husband, a home, some children.
There are probably few places in the world less likely to produce a woman who would go on to stand alongside Team GB’s Nicola Adams on a podium in London with a bronze Olympic medal around her neck.
But in 2012, that is where Mary Kom stood. Full story...
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That question, to my feminist British ears, is a rhetorical one. If men can do it, women can do it; even if the playing fields are uneven, the possibility always exists.
But Mary is coming at this from a different perspective. A 30-year-old Indian flyweight boxer who genuinely warrants use of the term ‘against all odds’, Mary grew up in a poor family in Manipur, a state in the north-east of India where women are expected to follow a traditional path. A husband, a home, some children.
There are probably few places in the world less likely to produce a woman who would go on to stand alongside Team GB’s Nicola Adams on a podium in London with a bronze Olympic medal around her neck.
But in 2012, that is where Mary Kom stood. Full story...
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