However that’s only half the story. Lakshmi is not representative from the average Indian woman. And while the middle class, urban women may take charge and, at times as likely to leave their own husbands as their husbands to leave them, in non-urban villages in India, yet the men who initiate the majority of divorces – a often leaving women and children within non-financial and little family support. “Poor women in villages in many cases are just abandoned, ” says George, who works for Streevani, a business based in Pune nongovernmental, according to its website, is “committed towards the empowerment of women in India”. “Some have no chance to remarry because based on the rules of caste can not, even though the guy can. ”.
