How TV is empowering the women of India
Central argument:
TV is a quick solution to educate women in India, who may get no to little education.
It would help them to change their views on children and spousal violence.
It’s certainly a fact that some things changed in the last
couple of years. Women in India have more rights nowadays. But what changed it?
I don’t think the TV alone is responsible for this change.
As Joel Waldfogel mentioned in his article it is proven by research that women’s
opinions changed between 2001 and 2003. The TV may have played a part in it but
I don’t think it’s the only one. In the last eight years even more has changed and
women have become freer in their own homes. We have to see that most men get
education and that they influence their wives in one way or the other. If a man
changes his view on certain issues, Waldfogel talks about, it would certainly
change the women’s view too. The world has become more modern and more and more
is accepted in Indian public. I think that in the last eight years another big
change found place in homes all over India, that the violence almost disappeared
and that women are being treated better.
But he is not completely wrong; TV is an important fact on
changing women’s lives. There is a wide range of channels and some of them can
be educational. By watching TV shows, which show self-confident women, that
have their lives in their own hands and that would totally freak out if their
husbands would hit them, the Indian women may be change their views. But is it
good for those women? Do they even want a change? Some may believe that it is
just part of their culture and one shouldn’t interfere with those kinds of
issues. You can say that men are just in power in Indian households, because
that is part of their culture. And if the women are happy with their lives like
that, why change anything? Why?
I know why. I think that every human being has right for
justice and education. Women and men, no matter what culture, should have the
same rights in their families. Men should not be hitting their wives just
because they want to have a sandwich or just because he doesn’t get what he
wants.