Yet on a social occasion you will often find that the Burmese women cluster together on one side of the room and leave their men to talk to each other in a group of their own. You will see ...

So it is with other associations: for example, the relationship between men and women. There is no “battle of the sexes” in Burma. Burmese women feel the spiritual superiority in a man.

Women in Myanmar have been tortured, sexually harassed and threatened with rape in custody, according to accounts obtained by the BBC. Five women who were detained for protesting against a ...