In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a voice

Re:In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a v... by varvar on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:08AM (#25657382)

Liberating women from what exactly?

It all seems ridiculous myth making, considering what indians have shared here on HN about how much asymmetrical power indian women have available through the court system in India, and the sort of abuses they inflict regularly, the misuse of the assymetry for material gain etc.

But yeah I get it. It's the new Democracy + Capitalism freedom making program they NEED to go through for their own good.

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Re:In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a v... by croissants on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:03AM (#25657794)

Restricting to people age 25+, Indian men average 8.7 years of education, and Indian women average 5.4 [1]. Add in the sclerotic nature of Indian courts, and unless I'm really misreading this data, it's hard for me to imagine that Indian women averaging an elementary school education are en masse closing this gap through legal maneuvers.

Maybe you're referring to a specific subgroup of women?

[1] http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/IND

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Re:In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a v... by pascalmahe on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:01AM (#25657772)

> Liberating women from what exactly?

Take your pick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_women_in_Indi...

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Re:In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a v... by varvar on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:50PM (#25666222)

Hah this article. Was this even wikipedia? So it concludes that we need to take down the Patriarchy and the Sexism in India.

So I was right. We need to intervene in their society, and change it to liberate their women. Because we know best. And whoever doesn't align with that, must be supportive of violence against women. Shame on them too.

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