Being a Woman in India?

Question

How hard is to be a woman in India? I heard that it is not easy.

I have heard the same that angelsforanimal said, that's why Im asking if this is true. I will also want to know the opinion of women from India.

This far curiousguy is the best answer to my question...=) Thnx.

Answer 1

Finally an answer from an Indian woman! MSK's answer is true. I just want to add an angle from an Urban woman's standpoint who has a beautiful daughter.......we cant express our individuality & creativity through our style of dressing as the western woman can. Indian men seem a tad more repressed than their western counterparts. As a woman you 'fit' in more if you cover yourself as much as possible or avoid public transportation totally .
Indian men are also more 'macho' in their thinking in that they have specific views on what is a 'womens' work & what is a'mans' work. While a husband might appreciate his working wife's pay packet, he is loathe to equally share in the housework.
While things are improving I still think we have a long way to go before we are treated as equals.

Answer 2

I dont know what angelsforanimal is all about. She dont know anything about India and started giving the answers about.

Anyway, An average woman in India is more happy than an average woman in any western country (based on top women magazines). If there are restrictions on women, there are same restrictions on men as well. Both men and women are not expected to loose their virginity before their marriage. Who dont know Indira Gandhi and Ashwarya Rai and presently the strongest person in Indian politics is Sonia Gandhi (woman). I understand that there are restrictions on women in India but these restrictions are only for their protection (like should not go alone in nights etc.) or for their character.

But then again, time is changing now and Indian women is ahead in every field, have equal rights with their men, educated, independent..........you name it and they have it all.

Update ur records!

Answer 3

To correct one of the previous answers, India is by no means an Islamic country.
Now answering to your question, I am an Indian Women, and i am quiet happy and proud of being one. I think the amount of respect an Indian Women may be a mother or sister gets, no one else in the world gets that and getting respect and being treated well, according to me to some extent also depends upon that person.
So, visit India and see the truth

Answer 4

You, Curiousguy, need to live up to your misbegotten name, and be a little more curious about the truth before you post garbage like that!!! Almost four thousand children (mostly young girls) disappear every year in New Delhi alone, and that is supposed to be the most modern city in that country. Being a woman in India is a life of constant fear and apprehension, and if you don't belIEve me, then go there and find out for yourself. But into then, do us all a favor, and SHUT THE H___ UP!!!

Answer 5

To correct one of the previous answers, India is by no means an Islamic country. The religios demographic is: 80% Hindu, 14% Muslim, 2.4% Christian, 2% Sikh

Now, how does the life of a woman in India compare to life of women in other coutries? Very favorably. Indian constitution awards equal rights to women in almost all aspects including running for political office, voting rights (universal suffrage), inheritence rights, property ownership, child custodial rights in marriage, equal propert ownership in marriage, etc.
A woman was the Prime Minister (topmost executive political office) of India for nearly 20 years. There are several women chief ministers of states.
Various mainstream sects of the majority Indian religion, Hinduism, worship the feminine life force in one form or the other. The concept of the feminine power is very strong in the culture and in myth.
The current literacy rates for women are not very high (47%0 but improving. The day to day life of a woman, especially in the metropolitan cities is in most ways no different form that of a western woman (It may be different only as much as a man's life is different in the two situations).
There are more social restrictions in the society but these are a general reflection of the difference between eastern cultures that are more society oriented versus western cultures that are more individual oriented.

Answer 6

India is a vast country with people of many religions, culture, languages. It all depends on one's status. The general middle class way of life is that a girl is protected till she reaches the right age, given education and then married off to a suitable groom so that she settles down. Nowadays education is imparted to most of the women and some are real achievers. Earlier they will not send the girls alone to foreign countries to work or study but even that has changed a lot. So many of them are studying/working abroad. So I really do not know to which age, country, race you belong to , asking silly questions like this and I do not know who the morons give equally silly answers. Just grow up. Look only into your life and see you run it. If you are a sociologist then do these researches on your own and come to your own conclusion.

Answer 7

It isn't being a woman in India in general. I really depends on what religion and family the woman is in. I heard that they circumcise little girls there and that the parents still choose the bride and groom at very young ages. I also heard that some parents don't want their sons to marry an inexperienced bride so they make her lose her virginity to a complete stranger.

Answer 8

Couldn't say. But isn't it hard EVERYWHERE? A friend of mine, Japanese, in Japan, complains about cultural sexism in her country, visited here, felt the same way. It's global.(Though lest we forget Indira and the female leaders of that South Asian democracy!) But, little by little, don't you think it's changing. I do. Hope so.

Answer 9

being a woman in any islamic country is not easy. I've been to one so i know. make sure you wear proper clothing, keep urself covered up, and dont stand out of the crowd where ppl can notice you. not the best advice but if u want to keep safe and not go thru any trouble, u would want to go by this advice.

Answer 10

You will probably have to do a field assignment. Go there and find out for yourself by talking to the women that live there already. Take a translator with you.