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Discuss the status of women among the emerging urban middle class.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Social Classes in India

The urban middle class is where women's gains are most visible and most incomplete. Max Weber's separation of class, status and party frames the answer: their class situation — market capacity and consumption — has risen far faster than their status, the social honour accorded them, or their share of organised power.

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  • Educational status: a genuine reversal
  • Economic and occupational status: the paradox
  • Familial status: voice without authority
  • Political status: inclusion deferred
  • Symbolic status: why caste survives the most modern household
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