Lakhs of Muslim women in India stepped out of their doors first time during Anti-CAA protests. It took these many years to come out of the walls. Village after village I traveled community meetings were not attended by Muslim women. What's the reason? If not purdah?
Most Muslims in India are poor and there's no question of education or jobs or public participation. The rich households allow eduction but not jobs or any public activities. Family, religion strictly control Muslim women's lives even if educated. These are the truth.
How long must reforms wait? And why? Reforms started in Hindu personal laws way back in 19th century. Then in 1950s. Gender equality given in property inheritance despite society not changing. But Muslim personal laws and practices remained untouched, unchanged.
For 75 years Muslim women are in isolation and mainstream civil society media, political leaders kept tip-toeing around the religious leaders and patriarchs. Nobody tried to find out what Muslim women truly want. There is no ethnographic research. No data.
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