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Full video: Career or Kitchen? The Working Woman’s Guilt || Acharya Prashant, IIIT Bangalore (2025)

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Transcript
00:00When it comes to leadership, they say,
00:01They say,
00:04Somebody told me,
00:06In Mumbai it often happens when women are returning from work in the Mumbai locals.
00:11Because they know it will take an hour to reach their place.
00:15In the bus itself they start chopping vegetables.
00:18But the point that men never do it.
00:21She works two shifts.
00:23When the office shift is over, then the second shift starts.
00:28And this is a working woman.
00:30Probably earning as much as the man does.
00:33So many organizations hesitate giving roles of responsibility and seniority and leadership to women.
00:42Because they know that for the woman the primary responsibility is the home.
00:50You know, alright.
00:52Basic, junior level, beginner operations jobs.
00:57Women are very good.
00:59More disciplined than men.
01:01Committed, loyal, everything.
01:03And they are seen to not create as much trouble as men do.
01:09So organizations like to employ women at those levels.
01:13At the lower levels.
01:14But when it comes to leadership.
01:17They say,
01:20They will not put that in writing.
01:24But that's the concern of everybody who is responsible for the performance of an organization.
01:30Over the years.
01:32What is your job at the national security?
01:33You need to be in the office.
01:34What?

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