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  • 6/4/2025
Full video: Why do fewer women go to work? || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)
Transcript
00:00Women are getting educated and empowered and everything and are choosing to sit at home. Now why is this happening?
00:04This is so counter-intuitive and mind-boggling, is it not?
00:07How is it possible that women with all the opportunities available to them today with all the education that is available to them today, qualified women and
00:15knowledgeable women, they are opting to sit at home. What is happening?
00:18What is happening is that the husband's income has increased and the husband and the wife mutually decide that now that you are earning enough
00:25Why do I go out? And this is a mutual decision mind you.
00:28Okay, I was only I was working for three years post marriage, but now that the baby has come, why do I need to work anymore?
00:36Let's face it the home is such a comfortable place, especially if there is sufficient money at home
00:42This is again the prakritic tendency. What does mother prakriti tell you? She tells you that the purpose of your life is
00:51Relaxation and consumption a large cross-section of women are following this route
00:57And it is a very very dangerous route

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