Hypothesis: The younger generation is more inclined to feel that marriage as an institution is

deeply rooted in patriarchy and gender inequality.

Positive statements:
1. Marriage demands more from a woman than it does from a man.
2. A woman’s husband and in-laws have too much control over her social life and career.
3. Marriage is an institution based on the alliance between two unequal partners.
4. More often than not, men have all the economic control in a relationship.
5. After marriage, the responsibility of household chores falls entirely upon the woman.
6. Unmarried men face less societal judgment than unmarried women.
7. Women have less freedom to choose when it comes to the person they will marry.
8. Marriage is often misused as a tool to justify emotional and physical abuse.

Negative statements:
1. Men and women hold equal positions of power in a marriage.
2. A typical marriage demands the same amount of contributions and sacrifices from the
man and woman.
3. Men and women face societal pressures of the same magnitude when it comes to getting
married.
4. After marriage and childbirth, men and women make equal efforts in parenting.
5. In society, being married is as important a part of a man’s identity as it is a woman’s.
6. A man makes as much an effort with the woman’s family as the woman makes with the
man’s.
7. Men and women reap equal benefits from marriage.
8. A woman continues to have the same amount of independence after marriage as she did
before getting married.

Structured interview questions:

1. Do you believe that marriage serves as a milestone in one’s life?

2. In your opinion, does gender play a part in determining the roles two people take on after
marriage? If yes, then how?
3. Have you personally seen a shift in how the newer generations view marriage? How can
this shift be described?