Marriage Still Chief Expectation for Indian Women, But Educational Options Expand
Chennai, India
The middle-class families of Chennai, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, believe strongly in women’s education. At age 3, every girl is enrolled in school, and most make it all the way to an undergraduate degree.
But that is no reflection on the status of women here.
Parents usher daughters into arranged marriages as soon as they reach 21, the legal age for marriage here, and usually the age when they...
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