All Work & No Pay: As Financial Shackles Of Homemakers Worry SC, Is An Allowance From Hubby The Answer?

Supreme Court observing that Husbands must pay for personal needs of wives and share ATM cards with them, progressive or regressive?

Supreme Court said Indian married men must become conscious of the fact that they need to financially empower their wives

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The Supreme Court, in a recent verdict upholding the maintenance rights of divorced Muslim women under Section 125 of CrPC, expressed concern about the vulnerability of the Indian homemaker. In her separate order, Justice B.V. Nagarathna asked, “What is the position of a married woman who is often referred to as a ‘homemaker’ and who does not have an independent source of income, whatsoever, and is totally dependent for her financial resources on her husband and on his