Alice Evans on The Great Gender Divergence
Ideas of India
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The Importance of Local Context in Understanding Female Employment
Men sharing care work will definitely enable a more egalitarian society. But the way that it usually comes about is a consequence of women's rising employment. In your project, you study really minute differences in context, in culture, in speech. I have seen you look through like Rajput paintings and Mughal paintings. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of fascinating in that sense that the kind of detail and minutiae that you need to go into to genuinely understand the problem in a particular region.
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