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Another thing I've noticed aside from caste discrimination (as a white guy) is how much Indians talk about marriage (and the way it's talked about)

I saw this post on blind a couple months ago where a woman engineer reported her manager to hr because he asked her if she was married point blank. Most of the top voted comments were really nasty towards her, calling her mentally ill etc. I have other examples on top of this from work or uni but this was the most poignant one

Then I saw this* article like a week later, good read

* https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/world/asia/india-single-w...



> Then I saw this* article like a week later, good read

* https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/world/asia/india-single-w...

> Many landlords see renting to single women alone or in groups (and single men, to a lesser extent) as a risk — to the stability of families, to the reputations of neighborhoods.

Yeah, no. Landlords don't like renting to single people of either gender. The rental listings usually say Families only or No bachelors. I don't know from where the author got the idea that single men are less likely to be seen as a risk. But that doesn't match my lived experience of more than 7 years in Bengaluru . In one particular instance though, the landlord was willing to rent to spinsters but not to bachelors.

Indian women face plenty of structural issues and discrimination. But this particular issue is not gendered. And it is disingenuous that the article tries to spin it that way.




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