system would be less frequent, but he feels nobody does this because of our patriarchal society. Working women may

Television of Afghanistan -- struggles to work within the country's patriarchal society, while also trying

and very repressed. It's more pervasive in the North, where historically society is more patriarchal and

of a conservative marriage will perhaps hold a mirror to society where women are miscounselled

of discontinuation of past schemes targeting a section of society. Patil also reflects on

plot, the film's core message about women's autonomy and challenging patriarchal views remains strong.   A

physical reasons but for reasons relating to repression. In this patriarchal world, women have historically

The village sarpanch is Manju Devi (Neena Gupta), but as it usually happens in patriarchal societies, her husband Brij

the problem of pinning down Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the embedded patriarchal structure of Indian

and emotionally dependent on the man they've married, their status in society too, stems from being