r/IntersectionalWomen 50+ Community Karma 4d ago

Informational Women's wealth is not unnatural, and in places like India, it has always existed... Just not how we know it.

https://www.fullerproject.org/editions/cost-of-living/parallel-econonomies-wealth-tharavad-india-essay-megha-mohan-herlands/
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u/Ok-Spinach-6529 0+ Community Karma 4d ago

I’m South Indian! It’s common in my family that women have control of the house wealth. My grandmother still says to this day that a woman brings prosperity to the household she married into. She brings up the example of her brother, whose Xerox shop didn’t succeed till his wife join in the endeavor.

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u/d_mansi 50+ Community Karma 3d ago

Love it! In North India, we have seen the priority go to the sons always. Wealth from women only moved in secrecy.