Women In India Break Barriers To Become More Than Wives & Mothers | CNA Correspondent

India, one of the most dynamic countries in Asia. It’s undergone a sea change in recent decades economically, but looking deeper, have the lives of its women caught up with its transformation? In this International Women’s Day special, CNA Correspondent looks for answers through the lives and views of two generations of Indian women.
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[@mantelikukkapenkki2368]

Wonderful. Go ladies and chase your dreams. Greetings from Finland 🙂

[@exxtraagyaanofficial10m36]

in my previous company, my AVP told me that "what a woman will do with more money, no man comes to marry a woman seeing her salary, so it's pointless to give her increment". Irony is, he himself has two daughters. The Head who hired me, had left the organisation, later I had face a lot of bullying by entire men group because they were so insecure seeing a woman leading them 🙄

[@satyajitmahapatra9487]

Keep rising.

[@ohissitzai]

You go girl! Keep shining ✨️💪

[@cherrypie6784]

Not insecure maybe sometimes women get easy promotion due to looks too especially in IT jobs

[@pinkiepiek1d808]

@@cherrypie6784God you men always have excuses for ur shitty behaviour it’s always her fault

[@bobbybannerjee5156]

Marriage is a male concept. It helps men secure control of women. In my country marriage is almost 100 % for men and women. However this patriarchy isn't good for the ordinary male either. Married lives are difficult and stressful. Men like to keep it that way, surprisingly.

[@icysnow57cold64]

Multiple studies have shown that women live happier and healthier lives being single then being married. Statistically speaking, women are happiest when single and childless in today's times. Also, women can have friends and biological family that they share a life with. We as humans need the presence of other humans in our lives yes. But we can live alone. We don’t need romantic relationships to survive. We do need love and support, but it can be from friends and family. It does not need to be from a romantic partner. Studies also show that single women are far happier than their married peers, and that married women lose out in career earnings, career trajectory, health, and life expectancy compared to those single peers as well.

[@icysnow57cold64]

Married women live shorter lives, and report lower levels of happiness than women who never marry. Married women tend to age more and have more health problems than single women do, and a lot of that is because of the stress that comes from being in a romantic relationship. Single women live longer than married women. Also, according to many studies, women have higher rates of depression when married. Over half of all women today are single, by choice. Statistics indicate that single women tend to have the highest life expectancy on average.

[@bobbybannerjee5156]

@@icysnow57cold64 I'd like to see those studies, if you may. Here in my country India, women and girls are crazy about children. It's most unfortunate. After they become mothers, they obsess with the child. I wish women were the way you described, but it doesn't seem that way.

[@ohissitzai]

Knowledge is power. I hope for all girls and women to be empowered to break away from social norms and succeed in whatever they choose. Happy international womens day ❤️❤️❤️

[@sudhanshuagarwal5383]

Wonderful ladies.

[@MonochromaticBlues]

These women have my Utmost respect, BRAVO!!!

[@jarrodyuki7081]

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@objectsmedia4523]

current 2023 Indian (Modi) government wanted to raise the age of marriage to 21. Same as men in this country for a better female future and equality by law, but the great western loved candidate party and rest of the opposition just opposed the move completely . you guys at the (Western Media) have no problem calling the current government repressive Its amazing.

[@dietrichdietrich7763]

Life is meant to be (purely) loved.

[@tkyap2524]

Are women not human beings like men? Men are planters. Women are the fields for the seeds to germinate. Both are necessary for a good harvest.

[@isabelc2131]

So, humans are ony there to breed...yeah, we can see how that mindset turns out nowadays...

[@aruruuuuuu]

Wow someone got a breeding kink

[@ez30yearsago48]

Small countries should really stop against India.

[@jarrodyuki7081]

yes give women full equaility in society so they cna copperate and work with society!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@maryngeoh9007]

Pls stp piling up the plate for women

[@bhagwati1]

"Give women equality"! Who is this doling out equality to women? Women are born equal! They Need to be given equal opportunities and treated equal.

[@al-emran4621]

Study is the panaca...

[@jarrodyuki7081]

japan will retke thek urils skahali nand vladivoksouth kore will take north korea.

[@ez30yearsago48]

Showing all the rural and worst parts of India 🤣🤣🤣

[@ez30yearsago48]

@@Adityayadav-tj1ec majority of India? Really, you have no idea how India really is, Do you? India has changed! I live in satara village , Chatrapati sambhajinagar, Maharashtra Right now and I can definitely tell you, it's definitely not like that anymore, idk where you're from, hmmm yadav, probably from Bihar right? Or living abroad?

[@cherrypie6784]

​@@Adityayadav-tj1ec u have no idea what is india is bro😂

[@dongiovanni8899]

the Endia of women

[@crishhari5903]

Looking at the demograpic time bomb in South Korea, Japan, China, western Europe and many more, it would seem that woman and work place don't help in the long run. India has a healthy balance of working and homestaying women. Economically, India is the fastest growing country and it is only a matter of time before India overtakes Japan and becomes the 3rd largest economy in the world. India doesn't need to westernize their family structure and fall into the trap of low birth rate.

[@class6aa]

Although I want to disagree, there are some truth to what you are saying.

[@class6aa]

@@Adityayadav-tj1ec put woman in work force will naturally decrease birth rate no matter how good family policies are. Unless pregnancy can be done outside of a human body and no longer a woman’s duty.

[@iaratrezzi4696]

but the human being is the same all around the globe, so everyone has the right to study and work if they want to

[@class6aa]

@@Adityayadav-tj1ec to really build a effective family environment that actually helps the women is very expensive and costly. It also requires the society to be progressive enough. Looking at China, which by law actually have fairly family friendly policies but these are the exact issue causing discrimination for women in the workforce. Because the economic burden of supporting family friendly policies which are usually utilised by woman falls on the private companies. So companies are less willing to hire woman who express desire to have babies. Women who wants a job is also pushed not to have babies also. It’s really hard. Probably the only way to solve this is to make pregnancy possible outside of the mother. Such that by nature woman do not have a bigger burden in child birth

[@clairestz1328]

Women's wombs are not the adjustment variables of a country. Especially if that means that a substantial part of the population still remains below the poverty threshold. Family planning is the only way to ensure that the parents can provide for their children adequately, and offer them the best possible future. Reproductive rights for women have benefits for the whole of society in the end.