That’s the purpose of life, no? To know your real destiny beyond your physical limitations and social conditioning. Most people do not know that such a dangerous thing is surreptitiously happening to them. I have found that we are quite big on media and social media now, so comments flow in their hundreds. And women actually have a self-righteous position when they say that we are not supposed to work and you better not expect that from us. Equally, men are conditioned about the roles they are supposed to play in life at home, in society, and how they are supposed to feel about themselves.
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Acharya Prashant: I talked about the female labor participation rate. Even as you were narrating the story, that was the first thing that flashed in my mind. One of the interpretations of this declining FLPR is that as households are getting richer, women are deciding, choosing, in a conditioned way, obviously, to stay at home. They are saying, “Now that the husband earns enough, why do we need to go out?”
So even those women who were working and earning for themselves, let’s say five or ten years back, are deciding to quit their jobs, especially in the middle class and the upper middle class. In the lower-income groups, the drop in the labor participation rate is not so high because they can’t afford to drop out. They need to have a second income to run the family, so, there, women continue to be engaged in work.
But what’s being seen is that the moment the family gets a bit affluent, the first thing that happens is that the woman stops working. Not obviously in all cases. Now, it’s not merely the woman’s decision, obviously. It is the decision of the woman and the man; and it is coming from all the forces that act on them. And it’s not good at all; it’s not good at all.
