Wednesday, September 5, 2012

They say Indian Women are financially illiterate, are they nuts?

Ok, so few days ago this was a headline in one of the newspapers & after that there were lots of jargon on the same. But i do not agree with this at all. Women is that member in the family who manages & saves in all sphere of the family expenses yet provide good nutrition, comforts & other necessities to her family.

Talking about the modern financial tools like Mutual Funds, Bank accounts, Govt. Bonds, buying real estate & even Share trading (which was considered to be a male dominated area) all are being utilized and explored by modern Indian women to create wealth for their families & themselves.

May be some of us (including men) can be ignorant about these tools but can anybody explain me how can it be gender related?


Love

Nimisha

6 comments:

  1. If you have a link to that article, I would love to read it, but from what you have described, this appears to be yet another example of gender bias in the media where one of the ways of explaining any phenomenon is to blame it on an imaginary trait inherent in a gender. And as it generally happens, that trait always appears to be inferior and always only women appear to be afflicted by it. So, it is good that you called attention to another instance of it.

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  2. Thank you Srijan for reading this post and understanding what I wanted to express.

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  3. Nimisha..how does it matter ..we know what we are ;) Do you think Man would have cared if we would have said this thing about them ? They would have laughed it off.

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    1. You are correct anamika.. but I feel weird on such generalisation...

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  4. Dear Nimisha, I read somewhere" women who aim equality with men lack ambition" . So I guess that explains it all. And as far as being financially illiterate, I guess it goes for both men n women of our generation. With all the plastic money, easy EMIs and High disposable incomes we all have given in completely to consumerism

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    1. Very well said Prapti, I too feel comparing genders is not at all required & for what it should be done. A habit, Character or behavior is person specific and not gender biased.

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