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What is the role of women in the Indian society?
In Indian society, women are traditionally discriminated against and excluded from political and family related decisions. Despite the large amount of work women must do on a daily basis to support their families, their opinions are rarely acknowledged and their rights are limited.
What is the role and expectations from a woman in our society?
As a wife: Woman is man’s helpmate, partner and comrade. She sacrifices her personal pleasure and ambitions, sets standard of morality, relieves stress and strain, tension of husband, maintains peace and order in the household.
Why women’s role is important in social change?
When the economy and political organization of a society change, families who can adjust to the new conditions will fare the best. Inasmuch as women the world over are the primary caretakers of young children, they play an important role in facilitating or hindering changes in family life.
Women’s situation in India. Carry on the family line Able to provide for their aging parents Bring a wife (and with this a capable domestic helper) into the family Play an important role in death rituals in Hindu religion, which ensure, that the soul is released from the body and can go to heaven.
What is it like to be an Indian woman?
Indian women are in a constant state of vigilance, like a country on terrorist alert. Satish, a 52-year old banker, told me: “For rape there is no fixed time: always be alert.” No democracy is a democracy when half its population lives in fear.
What are the opportunities for women in India?
Today’s India offers a lot of opportunities to women, with women having a voice in everyday life, the business world as well as in political life. Nevertheless India is still a male dominated society, where women are often seen as subordinate and inferior to men.
Are familial duties holding back India’s working women?
Familial duties are holding back India’s working women. Some 64\% of Indians think that the main job of women is to be good mothers and wives, according to an Ipsos Global Trends Survey 2017 that polled 18,180 adults across 22 countries. The country ranks third in having traditional views about women’s roles after Indonesia and Russia.