A survey has found that married women feel more secure in life as well as at the workplace than their unmarried counterparts. Before the International Day for the elimination of violence against women this month, BharatMatrimony conducted a survey on marriage and security among women across the country and found that the former provides women a sense of security and a fence against workplace harassment.
While the survey may have revealed this, many women in the capital think that it all depends on a person’s circumstances. “Considering the fact that women have become socially and financially independent, they don’t really consider marriage a security blanket. It could be one of the reasons, but not the only reason,” thinks communication consultant, Mallika Kundu, who got married recently.
On the contrary, there are some who think that marriage gives stability more than security. Says Geetika Vohra, a banker, who got married a year ago, “After marriage, you are not looking for emotional support from your friends and family. You have one person in your life with whom you can share everything.” Geetika says that before marriage she was always uneasy as far as sharing her emotions were concerned, but for the last one year that has changed.
Psychologists think that looking for stability or security in one’s husband is “condition behaviour” among Indian women. “Since our childhood, we are brought up with the mindset that only a man can take care of us and thus we grow up into believing that a husband is our support system, but this is changing with education,” says psychologist Dr Deepali Kapoor.