"We want the government to provide employment and health care to the families of single women, and scholarships to their children," says one of the many Nepalese women fighting a government incentive that offers a $650 incentive to marry.
Check it out: Hundreds of single women, defined in Nepal as widows, divorcees, women whose husbands are missing, and unmarried women above the age of 35, marched on the streets of Kathmandu protesting the "government- sponsored dowry" that they say has treated them as commodities.
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