Now cna you please start you book on “how do singles survive in metros” :)) i need it badly girl….

Belated happy Valentines Day !! Hope u and manish had a ball !!

As usual this post also was a delight to read. I agree with your POV which most people have about working women. I used to earn more than my ex-husband.

I dont earn as much as Vinayak does, becuase he is an engineer and I am not. :-)So my gender definitely does not decide my salary. But yes people think otherwise. Another interesting point which, I think you missed out is, the interview that women face which have typical silly questions like, “are you married?” (If No) then the next question is “but you will soon get married” (So what, how is my being single your concern?) If you say yes you are married, the next question is, “when do u plan to go the family way?” (As if I have to tell the HR when will we make love without protection so that accordingly I get a job else I might go on a long maternity leave, which as a woman I ought to get as much as I ought to get my promotion and increment). This also bring me to my next point, which is, these questions are not asked from men becuase it is may be taken for granted that men, as fathers, dont have much role to play. Even if they want to go on a paternity leave for a month to care of the wife and the baby but the interview panel would rather be in a state of denial. (interestingly when I was interviwed by my Australian boss, I was not asked this rhetoric questions about shaadi and bachhe which are so personal)

May be it is Indian psyche that people dont want to accept a woman’s role as a money earner.

But the examples that you gave of your maid and rickshaw wala are truley inspiring, may be you can try giving thier story to chicken soup.

I wondered if Indian male chauvinism would ever allow these men to believe in a tribe of women who have more successful careers or bigger pay-packets than their father, brother or husband.

Well, its not only men who have this male chauvinism but a lot of women also think like that!!