Acharya Prashant addresses a question regarding the paradoxical trend in India where women's literacy rates are increasing while their labor force participation is decreasing. He confirms this trend has been particularly pronounced over the last seven to ten years, noting that it is strange because, proportionally, more women were in the workforce twenty to thirty years ago despite claims of women's empowerment and supportive policies today. The speaker dismisses superficial explanations like unsafe workplaces or general unemployment, arguing that conditions were not necessarily better in the past. He asserts that the primary cause is a significant cultural shift that has occurred in India over the last decade. This cultural change, propagated through all forms of media, has led women to de-prioritize work. It sends a message that a woman's primary asset is her body and her life's purpose is to seek pleasure. This promotes an easier path of gaining fame and money through superficial means, like social media, over the hard work and struggle of building a career. He identifies this as a dangerous combination of capitalist consumerism and cultural nationalism. This dominant socio-political thought, often disguised as religion or culture, relegates women to the home. He criticizes the use of terms like 'Griha Lakshmi' (goddess of the home) to bestow a nominal, superficial honor while stripping women of real power. He calls the excuse of staying home for the children a way of fooling oneself, pointing out the irony of educated, feminist women now staying at home. He argues that the value should be placed on spirituality, not culture, as culture is man-made and flawed, while spirituality is about consciousness and liberation. The ultimate goal for every human, man or woman, is liberation, which is impossible without economic independence. Acharya Prashant concludes that glorifying the home is akin to glorifying a biological, animalistic existence. He warns that the current cultural wave, which has taken a strong political form, has a place for women only within the confines of the home. This is a dangerous trend that leads women to choose an easier life of dependency, which is a 'patriarchal bargain'. He contrasts this with the path of spirituality, which calls for rising above the biological and bodily identity to realize one's true, conscious self.