Anjali Phadnis Bargaining, savings & gold _ Invisible hand of wom | Page 3

"we don't need to do anything special, they are already empowered in their conservative
financial way rather it’s our economical and statistical systems failure that we cant asses their
empowerment in our modern way of measuring empowerment, they will save money in
every possible way anyone could and keep economical crisis out of their door and still if it
comes they have their gold. Still we can do two things
First, we can add these household care work in which common Indian woman works
into a service sector, which is not going to happen anywhere globally, it’s daydreaming.
Second, common Indian women saves their money in traditional way of kitchen
canisters, boxes not aware of banking systems security, we can make it compulsory to
every woman or at least college going girl before taking admission in college to have a
bank account, at least financial inclusion would keep their savings in their own hands."
In the world of "homo economicus" where only one woman got the Nobel prize for
economics, overall just 48 and in the nation where our own PM's estranged wife have to
come to Mumbai's flora fountain for doing satyagraha for her status of wife,
I'm waiting for my interview call, positively!