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Write a note on the changing roles of middle-class women in India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Social Classes in India

The middle-class woman has been the symbolic test of Indian modernity since the nineteenth century. Her role has moved from custodian of an inner cultural domain to educated professional and consumer — real change, but uneven, because mobility has been conceded faster than authority.

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  • The inherited role: the nationalist "new woman"
  • Education has outrun employment
  • The double burden
  • New assertion, persistent limits
  • Conclusion

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