Sonam Kapoor and Karla Bookman on Dismantling India's Patriarchy | BoF VOICES

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🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Women in India are pushing back against social norms that limit their opportunities, though it can be an uphill battle.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and this week we're sharing a very special conversation I had with Sonam Kapoor Ahuja and Carla Bookman at Voices 2018.
0:15.4	For centuries, women in India have been denied the opportunities for growth, all in the name of religion and long-standing
0:22.3	social and cultural traditions and taboos. But things are beginning to change. In 2000, India had only
0:29.4	20 million internet users. In 2017, India had 462 million internet users. And by 2025, experts are predicting that there will be more than 850 million internet users,
0:43.7	mostly using cheap smartphones with very cheap data access.
0:47.5	This has transformed the online media market and is driving social activism and change in India's culture and community.
0:54.9	Carla Bookman is the founder and editor of the Swaddle, a women's health and culture site,
0:59.4	which publishes original news, features, and opinion, covering health care, science, gender, mental health and culture,
1:06.4	and often focuses on issues that aren't openly discussed in the mainstream media.
1:11.4	And Sonam Kapoor Ahuja is one of India's most famous faces and one of the highest paid
1:16.4	actresses in Bollywood. As well as being one of Bollywood's most commercially successful actresses,
1:21.6	Sonam is also India's most watched fashionista. She is the longstanding face for L'Oreal India,
1:27.2	and with over 15 million followers
1:29.4	on Instagram alone, Sonam has a platform and voice to affect change. She has been very opinionated
1:35.4	and vocal on issues about women and minorities in India, especially the LGBTQ community.
1:41.7	So here's Sonam Kapoorahuja and Carla Bookman on social change in India,
1:46.9	how to dismantle the patriarchy. So Carla, I wanted to start when we talk about, you know,
1:52.9	the way we titled this talk was, you know, social change in India, dismantling the patriarchy.
1:59.2	What does that mean exactly? And how does the patriarchy in
2:03.0	India differ from, say, the patriarchy elsewhere? Yeah. So, by the way, when I told my husband,
2:09.7	I was coming to talk about dismantling the patriarchy in India, he said, I hope they've got like
2:15.4	78 hours, because that's pretty much all you talk about.
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