We are almost a decade into the twenty first century. But it's still common to hear our domestic helps in India lament about how unlucky she is for being burdened with daughters. Stories on victims of dowry abuse and female infanticide still appear in the News. While one side of India proudly churns out women engineers and entrepreneurs, the other side still struggles, battling against age-old superstitious and irrelevant social stigmas that continue to negatively bolster the already strong patriarchal society.
