Central Argument: TV is calimed to be unhealthy by many, but now it has helped improve many women of rural places like in India.
Television has been distraction for many around the western end of the world. Although, TV is said to be something unhealthy, in some of the places like rural village of India, women have learned new things from Television. The study done by Jansen, of brown university and Oster, from University of Chicago has studied about the changes that television has brought in the thinking of women in India. TVs has not just given women insight about how to live a normal life, but has made women to be able to make their own decisions that are correct. And that brought entirely different lifestyle.
“Attitudes about women in rural India remain, shall we say, traditional: Women are expected to cook and clean and to have lots of babies” (Waldfogel), but now because of the introduction to some TV shows, the rate of children has fallen down, especially for women under 35 years, the birth fell by more than half. This shows the improvement of the lives of women in India.
Indian women have their own cultural attitude, and to see those unhealthy cultures slowly been cut off from places seems to be something amazing. The fact that the changes are going towards the healthy side rather than worsening seems to be good. And all these changes are due to the shows that are watched in TVs by thousands of women in India. The fact that women are gaining knowledge from TV makes TV the “Empowerment Box instead of the Idiot Box” (Waldfogel).
Television has been distraction for many around the western end of the world. Although, TV is said to be something unhealthy, in some of the places like rural village of India, women have learned new things from Television. The study done by Jansen, of brown university and Oster, from University of Chicago has studied about the changes that television has brought in the thinking of women in India. TVs has not just given women insight about how to live a normal life, but has made women to be able to make their own decisions that are correct. And that brought entirely different lifestyle.
The women have begun sending their daughters to school rather than just sending their sons; “When cable came to town, boys' rates of school attendance stayed the same, while girls between the ages of 6 and 10 were 8 percent more likely to go to school” (Waldfogel). This act of getting cable at rural village in India has now helped women stand on their own feet and not get beaten up by their husbands; “The average number of situations in which women said that wife beating is acceptable fell by about 10 percent” (Waldfogel).
It is true that in many parts of India “More than half need permission from their husbands to go shopping” (Waldfogel). And because of the TVs that have become extremely popular these days, women in the villages have started making their own decisions about shopping. Giving birth to a Son is something that illiterate women desire rather than being happy with what they have been given. Although, Television has now changed that mentality and the study shows that the “women's preference for male children fell by 12 percentage points” (Waldfogel). This does seem like an improvement in lifestyle of women who are uneducated. This shows that TV has been even more popular and useful instrument to make sure that people around the world, even in the most rural places get to understand and learn about the right decision that women make regarding their family. “Attitudes about women in rural India remain, shall we say, traditional: Women are expected to cook and clean and to have lots of babies” (Waldfogel), but now because of the introduction to some TV shows, the rate of children has fallen down, especially for women under 35 years, the birth fell by more than half. This shows the improvement of the lives of women in India.
Indian women have their own cultural attitude, and to see those unhealthy cultures slowly been cut off from places seems to be something amazing. The fact that the changes are going towards the healthy side rather than worsening seems to be good. And all these changes are due to the shows that are watched in TVs by thousands of women in India. The fact that women are gaining knowledge from TV makes TV the “Empowerment Box instead of the Idiot Box” (Waldfogel).
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