An Indian woman works as porter, a man’s job, at Bhavnagar railway station

An Indian woman working as a porter, traditionally a man’s job in India, transports the luggage of a passenger at the Bhavnagar railway station in Gujarat state, India, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Bhavnagar’s tradition of women porters began in 1880 when the King of Bhavnagar, Krishna Pratapsingh, decided to employ women porters at the station. Currently there are about twenty women porters working here. International Women’s Day will be marked on Friday, March 8, 2013. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Ajit Solanki>

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