Why Women Resist Their Independence? || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why Don't Indian Women Pay on Dates? || Acharya Prashant Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cic6y1PhMb4&t=0s Video information: 22.04.2021  Context:  ~ Why Don't Indian Women Pay on Dates? ~ How do societal expectations and cultural norms contribute to the belief that men should primarily cover expenses on dates in Indian culture? ~ To what extent do traditional gender roles influence the psychological mindset of Indian women when it comes to sharing or not sharing expenses on dates? ~ Are there psychological factors, such as a desire to conform to social expectations, that play a role in Indian women not offering to pay on dates? ~ How do individual values and personal beliefs impact the psychological decision-making process of women regarding splitting or not splitting costs during dating in India? ~ In the context of dating, how do perceptions of financial dynamics contribute to the overall psychological dynamics of relationships between Indian men and women?   Music Credit: Milind Date ~~~~~

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00:00 You see, traditionally women have been trained to be at home and it has seeped very deeply

00:13 into their psyche.

00:19 So much so that when we publish videos on women empowerment and I say that very loudly

00:27 that women ought to work and without financial independence there is no real independence.

00:36 Then it receives, surprisingly initially, a lot of resistance from the women themselves.

00:44 They say that it is a man's job to earn the money and it's our job to run the household.

00:56 So we are already working and if we go out to earn, who will run the household?

01:02 To some extent what they are saying is alright and I can see where they are coming from.

01:11 At the same time, there is this strange idea that the workplace, the workplace outside

01:20 the boundaries of the home is a preserve of the menfolk and that the natural, "natural"

01:30 within quotes, that the natural place of women is within the boundaries of the house.

01:38 That idea is to a great extent social.

01:44 It is social and the proof is that that idea does not remain constant or same across societies.

01:53 So you have this idea in the Indian society, even in the Indian society in some parts it's

02:00 more deep-rooted, in the other parts it's making way for better ideas and in the Western

02:08 world this idea is not that deep-rooted, though even there, there is an imbalance and inequity

02:21 in the labor participation rates.

02:24 So that's a social part of it and then there is the biological part, "Prakriti", physical

02:33 nature has prepared the female body to be at the nest, that's there in the body and

02:45 it becomes very difficult to fight what's there in your cells, your DNA, your hormones,

02:54 it becomes very difficult, when these two combine, the biological urge to stay at home

03:08 and take care of the kids, think of breeding and raising offsprings as your first priority

03:27 and the social training, then it's quite a potent, viciously potent combination.

03:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:39 (music)

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