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Coping with the challenges of traditional South Asian attitudes to women and work.

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I'm a British born Pakistani Muslim girl from Yorkshire. Most women from this background don't leave their maternal home until they are married. You only move to live with your husband and/or his family so when I told my parents I'd rather study than get married you can only imagine how awkward that conversation was...

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