Women in India are not allowed to work in mining or in jobs that require lifting weights above a certain threshold or working with glass, according to a latest World Bank report on South Asia’s largest economy.   “In India, the region’s largest economy with 612 million women, job restrictions remain widespread, with women not allowed to work in mining or in jobs that require lifting weights above a certain threshold or working with glass,” the World Bank Group’s ‘Women, Business and the Law 2016’ report released on Wednesday said.   “The law also prohibits women from jobs ‘involving danger to life, health or morals’,” it added.

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