In fact, Priyanka Chopra Jonas says her latest role in an upcoming US series would be the first time in her 22-year career that she’d get equal pay in comparison to the male co-actor. She also notes that the disparity in pay based on gender differences still exists in Bollywood.
Jonas also says she was nicknamed ‘black cat’, or ‘dusky’ because of her darker complexion, in comparison to actors with lighter skin colour.
Currently 90% of all marriages in India are still family-arranged, with the bride having little say on who’d become her future husband.
But the tide seems to be slowly changing, as an increasing number of Indian ladies are opting to stay single by choice. Ie, There is a FB community consisting mainly of urban single women who preferred to be called ‘proudly single’, instead of being described as ‘widows, divorcees or unmarried’.
According to the 2011 Census, 71.4 million women are single in India – that’s whooping 39% increase from 51.2 million in 2001.
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