Women in South India are more likely to be educated, live longer, and marry later. What are the causes behind this gender difference? ****** Research: Sushmita Sekhar Editing: Mayank Maurya Thumbnail: Ronit Soin (Instagram/@itsnotraunaq) English Captions: Dhruv Bambhaniya Tamil Captions: Keerthiga Ganesan (Instagram/@daily_snippets) ****** Markers 0:00 Introduction 2:36 Poverty 3:10 Marriage norms 4:15 Colonialism 4:50 Inheritance rights 4:47 Family businesses 6:36 Purdah system 7:58 Agriculture 9:03 Conclusion ****** Support on Patreon: https://patreon.com/sochyoutube Contact: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sochyoutube/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mohak.mangal/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mohakmangal ****** Creative commons: Pixabay Unsplash #NorthVsSouth #WomenEmpowerment #MohakMangal ****** 0. Introduction https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/age-of-womens-marriage-in-india-education-money-region-play-an-important-role/articleshow/78706030.cms https://niti.gov.in/content/life-expectancy http://mospi.nic.in/sites/default/files/reports_and_publication/statistical_publication/social_statistics/WM17Chapter3.pdf https://twitter.com/indiainpixels/status/1293837965664239617 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/state-area-and-gender-key-to-life-expectancy-shows-data/articleshow/78354844.cms https://www.livemint.com/Politics/AV3sIKoEBAGZozALMX8THK/99-cases-of-sexual-assaults-go-unreported-govt-data-shows.html https://ncrb.gov.in/sites/default/files/CII%202019%20Volume%201.pdf 1. History of gender rights in North and South India https://www.draliceevans.com/post/why-are-southern-north-eastern-indian-states-more-gender-equal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSJaa9KnI0A https://www.jstor.org/stable/4412300?read-now=1&seq=1 2. Factors that cannot explain the difference http://statisticstimes.com/economy/india/indian-states-gdp-per-capita.php https://niti.gov.in/content/sex-ratio-females-1000-males https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545701.2017.1364399?journalCode=rfec20 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14617962/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/3628913?seq=1 3. Factors that can explain the difference https://www.loc.gov/resource/g7650.ct000283/?r=0.105,0.293,0.844,0.546,0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/british-academy-brian-barry-prize-essay-can-religious-norms-undermine-effective-property-rights-evidence-from-inheritance-rights-of-widows-in-colonial-india/626A2F77E23D810EAAC438749DA78034 https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft067n99v9&chunk.id=ch010&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch010&brand=ucpress;query=gender#1 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Experts-lift-veil-off-purdah-origin/articleshow/2132555.cms https://www.idiva.com/news-opinion/womens-issues/rajasthan-chief-minister-ashok-gehlot-calls-for-a-ghunghat-hatao-campaign/18004924 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3520428?seq=1 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0971521519861162 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0973174118782506 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322492420_Explicit_prejudice_Evidence_from_a_new_survey https://www.jstor.org/stable/3203116?read-now=1&seq=1 4. Conclusion http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/GII http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/559511491319990632/pdf/WPS8024.pdf