Tinkerbell, I have a few points and would like to know your outlook.
1. You are surely talking about the upper middle class which constitutes a fairly small population of India. Let's say you belonged to the lower class / lower middle class family where your salary really did matter and you were FORCED to work no matter what - how will you react to that ?
2. In India education is free (government schools) for girls upto O level (+2) and thus I have seen girls are more educated than boys in the urban areas. And an MD degree or M.E. degree (most boys opt for these) is equivalent to post graduate which almost all the girls have as college fees is nominal. Agree or not ?
3. You remember that Abhishek, SRK, Aamir Khan (ex-wife) and Sunil Dutt all had wives older to them. I know that it is not a very big issue in many Indian families. Do you agree ?
4. As for women getting paid better, imagine the poor families in India (quite a percentage) where women has to work hard and probably contributes more money to her household. Many middle class 'business families' also have women contributing more to family kitty. I feel it is the work strees associated with well paid jobs which worries an Indian men as they are masochistic in their outlook. I know few Indian families where doctor wives are getting paid better and husbands have no issue. What is your say on this particularly if the wife is doctor.
5. Lastly about beauty parlour. Indian men also want to show off their wives to other men. So why would they stop them from going to the parlour is a puzzle to me. However, if they do, is'nt it liberating as they are not shallow.
6. As for doormat, I feel poor Indian husbands are in a worse state (only because of the patriarchal society) where they have to earn while the wives have easy. Have'nt seen a girl in India marrying unemployed men and feeding him. What say ?
Tinkerbell, I have a few points and would like to know your outlook.
1. You are surely talking about the upper middle class which constitutes a fairly small population of India. Let's say you belonged to the lower class / lower middle class family where your salary really did matter and you were FORCED to work no matter what - how will you react to that ?
2. In India education is free (government schools) for girls upto O level (+2) and thus I have seen girls are more educated than boys in the urban areas. And an MD degree or M.E. degree (most boys opt for these) is equivalent to post graduate which almost all the girls have as college fees is nominal. Agree or not ?
3. You remember that Abhishek, SRK, Aamir Khan (ex-wife) and Sunil Dutt all had wives older to them. I know that it is not a very big issue in many Indian families. Do you agree ?
4. As for women getting paid better, imagine the poor families in India (quite a percentage) where women has to work hard and probably contributes more money to her household. Many middle class 'business families' also have women contributing more to family kitty. I feel it is the work strees associated with well paid jobs which worries an Indian men as they are masochistic in their outlook. I know few Indian families where doctor wives are getting paid better and husbands have no issue. What is your say on this particularly if the wife is doctor.
5. Lastly about beauty parlour. Indian men also want to show off their wives to other men. So why would they stop them from going to the parlour is a puzzle to me. However, if they do, is'nt it liberating as they are not shallow.
6. As for doormat, I feel poor Indian husbands are in a worse state (only because of the patriarchal society) where they have to earn while the wives have easy. Have'nt seen a girl in India marrying unemployed men and feeding him. What say ?