Full steam ahead at the Indian train station run only by women – in pictures

In a country where women are quitting the workforce at an alarming rate, the all-female staff of Gandhinagar railway station in Jaipur are bucking the trend. Employed as ticket-sellers, station masters and conductors, the women say they hope to inspire a generation of girls passing through the station

All photographs by Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images