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Sorry, but just about every time gender and India comes up in the news its because of how poorly women are being treated in India and how often the courts look

• yummyfajitas 12y ago
  A theory: there is more to India than gang rapes and lynching on mango trees. Poor treatment of women in India is a major problem. I've been obligated to engage in actual street violence twice as a result of this, compared to approximately 0 times in the US [1]. After 10PM I will escort a woman home regardless of how annoying I find her. On the two occasions I attended an Indian church, "the ability of girls and women to protect their virtue" was one of the issues that attendees were instructed to pray for. Nevertheless, India is more than just the land of gang rape. In upper middle class households, women are often treated quite well. Similarly in a professional context. India had it's first female prime minister in 1966 (admittedly, she got the job via nepotism). Discounting the Indian upper class experience simply because of a few high profile examples of (primarily) lower class problems is a fallacy. [1] I've spent approximately 30 years in the US and 2 in India.
• sp332 12y ago
  India has 3x as many people as the United States. There's plenty of room for both good and bad examples.