Working women’s fight for pool access unending

Ahmedabad | Sunday | 24th March, 2019

Summary:

For working women, however, most pools in Ahmedabad remain inaccessible.“Not everyone lives in a residential society that has a pool. AHMEDABAD: Despite a slew of representations demanding simultaneous access to swimming pools for men and women, there has been little change to the policy of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in this regard. “When AMC announced special swimming batches for women in the evenings, I used to go to the pool in Maninagar. That lasted for just two months, after access for women in the evening was discontinued. “In the past, I checked whether AMC-run pools would allow me to swim in the morning, a slot reserved for men..