Tamil Nadu has near-universal female enrollment in schools. However, a degree (B.A., B.Sc., M.A.) has become a "matrimonial CV ornament" rather than a career tool.
In Madurai's nagar (middle-class neighborhoods), a typical day for a housewife (age 42, two children, husband a bank clerk): house wife sad status tamil
Tamil culture venerates the wife as the Kula Deivam (family deity). She is expected to embody Kannagi (from Silappadikaram )—chaste, patient, and suffering in silence. This archetype actively discourages the expression of sorrow. Sadness, therefore, becomes a private, unspoken epidemic. Tamil Nadu has near-universal female enrollment in schools
The sadness of the Tamil housewife is not a personal failure; it is a . She is the victim of half-finished modernity—educated enough to dream but conditioned enough to sacrifice. Her "status" is that of a perpetual adolescent: legally an adult, economically a child, socially a saint, and emotionally a ghost. Until Tamil society decouples a woman's worth from her husband's salary and her culinary skills, millions of Illarazzi will continue to smile at kolams while weeping in bathrooms. She is expected to embody Kannagi (from Silappadikaram
ஒவ்வொரு பெண்ணின் மனநிலையும் மதிப்புமிக்கது. உதவி காண்பது சிறுமை அல்ல.
தமிழ் கலாச்சாரத்தில், குடும்பம் மற்றும் குழந்தைகளின் பேறு மிகவும் மதிப்புமிக்கதாக கருதப்படுகிறது. ஆனால், இதன் பொருட்டு பல பெண்கள் தங்கள் கனவுகளையும், ஆசைகளையும் தியாகம் செய்ய வேண்டியுள்ளது. இதனால், பல குடும்பத்தில் உள்ள பெண்கள் மனநிலை மிகவும் பாதிக்கப்படுகிறது.