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Reading Time: 8 minutes Seeing female porters in Nepal isn’t really the norm; the trekking industry here is very much male-dominated. Women are generally considered to be not strong enough, not fast enough. But these women look pretty strong to me.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Nuray has been hosting cooking students with Intrepid Travel for eight years and her inclusion on our trip is no happy accident. Intrepid has been working for years to balance the gender disparity in Turkey, where women have fewer working opportunities than men.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes “We’re preparing the next generation of women of Morocco. Empowering women, for them to have positions of influence, it can bring some great changes to society.”
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The food on offer at Agra’s Sheroes Cafe is fresh and tasty, but the fare is not the reason to visit.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The air is thick with hairspray and nail lacquer fumes, and Farsi pop pounds from the stereo. This is life inside an Iranian beauty salon.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Becky turns heads all across East Africa. This is why.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes There are a lot of things we fight for here at Intrepid: sustainable tourism, ditching plastic bags, and putting an end to animal cruelty. But gender equality and female empowerment are particularly close to our hearts.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Sana is just one person. One female leader in one male-dominated society. But India is modernizing, and her story is proof.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes “I believe things are changing here”, reflects Pravin. “It won’t be long before 50% of our leaders are female.” This is a big deal. It’d make Intrepid the first ever travel company in India to achieve this.
