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Saturday, November 11, 2006
Kashmiri Women and the Marriage "Crisis"
War has the darnest effects on women's lives: in Kashmir, it raised the marriage age from 25 to 35. See, many eligible bachelors were killed, so the women had to compete harder for the remaining few, who wanted women with jobs. So the women got into higher education to improve their cv, but as a result gained a voice and became a bit picky. What a mess!
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A similar thing happens when there is a demographic boom and the society expects men to marry much younger women. For example there will be many more 20 year old women than 30 year old women.
So its not just war.
I agree. Usually these social changes have complex factors behind them. In the case of the West Bank and Gaza, the first intifada resulted in lowering the marriage age of women: party because with the university closed, women who would have gone to university, ended up getting married (plus an atmpsphere of uncertainty about the future etc.) Not sure what the effect of this second intifada concering this issue.
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