Delhi rickshaw driver Narotan Singh was never interested in the problems faced by women and girls – his only interaction with the opposite sex was with females from his middle-class family such as his mother, wife and daughter. Weaving through the streets of the Indian capital, the 37-year-old driver would often frown or stare through his rear view mirror at female passengers wearing tight-fitting jeans or skirts, or make a comment about how they should not smoke or be out late. But Singh’s chauvinistic ways are now behind him. Last month his attitude to women was transformed by a class on gender sensitisation run by the charity Manas Foundation and Delhi’s Transport Department. “When I was told that we have to do this training, I was not happy as I thought it was an unnecessary waste of my time – time which I could use to make some money by picking up passengers,” said Singh from the driver’s seat of his green and yellow motorised three-wheeler.

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