From the Hindu Padmapurana:
There is no other god on earth for a woman than her husband. The most excellent of all the good works that she can do is to seek to please him by manifesting perfect obedience to him . Be her husband offensive in manners debauched, immoral, a drunkard, a gambler live in open sin with another woman a wife should always look upon his as her god . She must on the death of her husband , allow herself to be burnt alive on the same funeral pyre then everyone will praise her virtue . In his presence, she ought always to be cheerful and never show signs of sadness or discontent.
Yet, India has had a female prime minister (as has Islamic Pakistan). America has never had a female President.
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I'm not sure if this text suggests that women shouldn't be in a leadership role. I think that the complexity of the traditional hindu concepts of male-female relationships prevent us from easy comparisons between it and the U.S.
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