0352.json

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    "id": 354,
    "date": "2020/10/27",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/a-statement-on-caste-bias-in-silicon-valley-from-30-dalit-women-engineers/d692b4f8-2710-41c3-9d5f-ea55c13bcc50/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_16",
        "https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/27/indian-caste-bias-silicon-valley/"
    ],
    "actions": [
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    ],
    "struggles": [
        "discrimination"
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    "employment_types": [
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    "description": "A group of 30 Indian female engineers who were born into the Dalit caste shared a statement with the Washington Post describing their experience of casteism and sexism in Silicon Valley. The group called for American corporations to adopt caste as a protected category, treated on the same terms as gender, race, and sexuality. ",
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    "workers": 30,
    "tags": [
        "sexism"
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    "author": [
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    "addresses": [
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