How Indias heatwaves are shutting schools - and pushing women out of the workforce

Forced to stay home or switch jobs, working mothers are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis as classes go online for weeks or months at a timeOutside, the temperature has passed 41C (105.8F). Inside Sakshi Katyals city apartment, the air conditioner is blasting but it does little to relieve the stress of balancing housework and helping her five-year-old log in on a laptop to online classes. Her daughters school closed in May and Katyal is not clear when it will reopen. Probably not till the ...