Becky Blab

I hate articles with overly congratulatory language like this:

After centuries of living confined behind the veil, the so-called ‘weaker sex’ has finally come out in the open and conquered the world.

Just because the article is about three female executives, does not give the author the right to proclaim that Indian women have finally ‘arrived.’

If this were the case, articles like this would not be necessary, describing how Renuka Chowdhury is proposing that the government pay a stipend to poor families to raise girls instead of killing them before they’re born, just after birth or not feeding them properly so they die on their own, etc… I wonder if, as she says, the money will encourage families to educate girls and change their mindsets–or if they’ll just use the money for something else, like dowry. How will the government track how the money is spent?