About The Event
While on the one hand, India has seen an increased percentage of literacy among women, and women are now entering professional fields, the patriarchal ideology of the home being a woman’s ‘real domain’ and marriage being her ultimate destiny hasn’t changed much. The matrimonial advertisements, demanding girls of the same caste, with fair skin and slim figure, or the much-criticised beauty cosmetic ads, are indicators of the slow-changing social mores. It was almost unthinkable for women to have a choice or a say in matters of marriage, career or life. Rather she had no voice at all.
