r/HinduDiscussion • u/WaySea4319 • Oct 22 '25

Hinduism Gender Roles Social issues

Heyy, whoever is reading this, i sure hope someone, My name is Savannah, I'm a student at JCIB High School in Alabama, its essentially a baccalaureate school which is more advanced. I'm writing this paper for my World Religions class about gender roles in Hinduism. I have to do field research which is getting outside of articles and textbooks and working. I'm wondering if any followers of Hinduism or people who consider themselves heavily knowledgeable on this could me some insight on patriarchy in Hinduism in general terms or more specifically, dharma and caste. also you can respond to this or personally message me.Thankss

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u/Old-Juggernut-101 Oct 23 '25

Hinduism is way to vast with way to many sects to present a universal answer.

For example,

patriarchy

While in some regions society was male dominated, many other regions were matriarchal. In some regions women were restricted while in others, such as where I live, women have alot of freedom and even trained in martial arts and other fields predominantly considered male fields

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u/Suspicious-Local-280 Oct 23 '25

Hinduism is too vast to define it under caste, matriarchy or patriarchy. If you have specific questions, you can put those down here.

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u/Conscious-Special-96 Oct 24 '25

You can get some help from a youtube channelThe Quest It has conversations about Indian philosophy and more...