It is interesting to see how status symbols shift so fast.
In Urbanised Middle class and above(predominantly UC though), it is a status symbol for parents to let their DIL work.
But in upwardly mobile LC(this is taking in both SC/ST/OBC) which are mainly dependent on (1/n)

Government jobs(*wink wink*dowry circle) strongly frown on the idea of working bahus. Infact the girls volunteer to become stay at home wives and it is seen as a prestige issue To have a stay at home wife and afford maid army.
(2/n)

I have worked in Jungle Mahal Bastar and Santal Pargana on various NGO stints and have acquitances in Silchar and Agartala.
In the former 3 places, the tribals are very eager to get their women into the workforce regardless the profile.
(3/n)

Personally mentored many girls who got Government jobs, opened their own cottage industry, studying in Good unis, etc. However in Agartala Silchar Haflong it is a status symbol among Tribal girls to aspire for a housewife status(even more so in the elite section)
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And these sections of the society don't even have sufficient number of "good" husbands who can afford a decent one-income lifestyle in a tier 2 city.
Still it is aspirational to become a housewife in one group of tribals and to become a working woman in another.
(5/n)

Again among socially orthodox UCs, there is almost an Unanimous agreement on not letting women work outside and they explicitly cite Eliteness and status as a reason for their position.
But these opinions are mocked and made fun of in your average MC circles
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Even if one makes a benevolent defense of housewives Like it is the duty of men to provide for the upkeep and a man is being nice by keeping a housewife and also having a littany of maids for her it is being looked as something of a joke in urban metro India(7/n)

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