India now has one of the largest pools of female STEM graduates in the world. Women are pilots, army officers, and entrepreneurs. The lifestyle shift is staggering:
At the heart of an Indian woman’s traditional lifestyle lies the family—almost always a joint or extended system. For generations, a woman’s identity was primarily defined by her roles as a daughter, wife, mother, and daughter-in-law. Her daily routine was, and in many places still is, structured around the rhythms of domesticity: waking before dawn to prepare meals, cleaning the home, performing puja (daily worship), and caring for children and elders.