Claudia #2

Today was our first day in India. The college attitudes do not seem that different than where we go to school. The women of the college feel that in college the men and women are treated the same, similar to our culture. However they know this is not the same in the business world. This leads to questions about how the men in college will treat women after they graduate. Will the men that treat women as equals in the class room, do the same when they leave the classroom and enter the work force?
The female students we met seem to have lives similar to ours. However they are the exception not the norm. The women that are adults have a different life then we do. They have family pressures to become certain people. They have roles to take care of their in-laws. These women have a lot of responsibilities, more then the average women in America.
There is strong sense of family in the India culture. Having family support has a great impact on women entering and staying in the work force. If a family supports the women in getting an education and working, they will help look after the children. Most importantly they will not try and talk the women out of it. Women in India are pressured into fallowing their parent’s wishes. Educated women have some strong similarities to us; however their family life and other parts of the life are very different.