Why are women not working? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00 We say the girl of today is very very forward looking.

00:04 These are the things that we say.

00:06 Having said all these things, if there were 100 women working in 1980 or 1990, what would

00:12 you expect be the number in 2022?

00:15 The number is only slightly greater than 100 and in percentage terms it has actually dropped

00:21 steeply, percentage of the total population because the female population itself has increased.

00:26 What is happening is that the husband's income has increased and the husband and the wife

00:30 mutually decide that now that you are earning enough, why do I go out?

00:34 And this is a mutual decision, mind you.

00:36 The home is such a comfortable place.

00:38 Let's face it.

00:39 The home is such a comfortable place, especially if there is sufficient money at home.

00:44 So if you want to change this situation, if you really want more women to come out and

00:48 make a mark in life, then you have to first of all challenge the dominant narrative of

00:54 this day.

00:55 It is a very very poisonous narrative, capitalistic consumerism.