Only-7%-of-urban-indian-women-have-paid-jobs
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Only-7%-of-urban-indian-women-have-paid-jobs
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Requesting a tweak to the title to remove the unnecessary - characters. Thank you.
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#3Yeah arranged marriage kind of subtly makes them stay at home leaving whatever career they had previously managed to make.
Financial illiteracy is also absent apart from hoarding gold like Smaug.
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#4An alternative title: a vast majority of Indian husbands have to support their non-working wives. The social problem is hurting both genders albeit in different ways.
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#5An alternative title: a vast majority of Indian husbands have to support their non-working wives. The social problem is hurting both genders albeit in different ways.
Fallacy - False equivalence. Clearly the balance of power in such as relationship is not close. Downvoted.
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#6An alternative title: a vast majority of Indian husbands have to support their non-working wives. The social problem is hurting both genders albeit in different ways.
Fallacy - False equivalence. Clearly the balance of power in such as relationship is not close. Downvoted.
Not necessarily. There are other aspects to traditional family structures that serves to even out the power imbalance caused by a single breadwinner, such as the woman's parents living in the same household and alimony laws.
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#7India has major problem with workforce participation especially among women [1].
This probably is a large reason why India is not able reap benefits of its demography (large percentage of young population).
[1]:https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.TOTL.FE.ZS?locat...
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#8An alternative title: a vast majority of Indian husbands have to support their non-working wives. The social problem is hurting both genders albeit in different ways.
Fallacy - False equivalence. Clearly the balance of power in such as relationship is not close. Downvoted.
I don't claim there is any equivalence, and it's by no means false. There is a famous book The Manipulated Man written by a feminist Esther Vilar. As long as the society puts all the blame on men (in todays parlance, 'white men') we don't get any inch closer to the solution.
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#9> The International Labour Organisation says that only a fifth of adult women had a job or sought one in 2019.
The key point being the majority didn't even seek one.
> Dropping out of the labour force is a status symbol for upwardly mobile households, showing they are able to get by on the husband’s earnings alone.
> The best thing the government can do to increase the supply of female workers is to increase the demand for labour in general.
This is where the author is completely wrong. It's a cultural issue. Women who have been groomed all their lives to lead a life of house wife can't suddenly find employment even if they want to due to lack of training. The training won't occur unless there is cultural push for women to work.
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#10An alternative title: a vast majority of Indian husbands have to support their non-working wives. The social problem is hurting both genders albeit in different ways.
Fallacy - False equivalence. Clearly the balance of power in such as relationship is not close. Downvoted.
Don't be so quick to judge the issues of developing country's societies through the lens of western cultures. What appears similar at surface level, might have completely different root causes and effects. The other replies here have added some interesting points.