It’s not “female competition”; it’s self-abuse “It’s common for a girl’s parents to ask her prospective in-laws if she will be able to work after marriage.” For women who come from slightly progressive Indian families, often marriage is a regression to an older time. The rules have always differed for the daughters of a house and the daughters-in-law [unless they are all equally oppressed]. In the same house, daughters are ‘given freedom’ to go to University, earn degrees and build a career, while the mother or daughters-in-law are…