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When women want to study abroad
Chains that hold them back
Last summer, one of my dissertation supervisees approached me as she plans to go abroad for higher studies. This is nothing unusual. Every year, a number of students, both graduate and undergraduate, ask for advice, suggestions and in the end some of these people also require recommendation letters. Finally, a fortunate few fly out to pursue their cherished dreams. I asked my rote questions when she plans to go and if she plans to apply for funding or if she plans to pay on her own. And then I asked reluctantly if her parents would not object to her going on her own. This is a question I hate to ask, but when it comes to female applicants, I have learnt to pose it. This is because there have been occasions in the past when even after securing the funds, the student s family objected by saying that she would need to get married first. Once, a young woman who complied with her parent s wishes had to cancel her plans as per in