The Son Was Loved, Little More: Subtle Gender Discrimination in Educated Indian Families | EP-3

She was loved. Her brother was loved more. And nobody in the house, not even her, thought anything was wrong with that. In Episode 3 of Trial by Fire, Priyanka talks about growing up in an educated, financially comfortable Indian family where gender discrimination never looked like discrimination. No one was mistreated. The daughters had everything they needed. The son simply had more: more attention, more indulgence, more of the future. It was so ordinary in their community that the parents never questioned it, and for years the sisters did not either. This is a conversation about gender bias in India that lives in well-off, urban, English-speaking homes, not only in the villages we prefer to blame. About what parents favouring one sibling does to a girl's sense of worth when it is too subtle to name. About the moment the sisters looked back and finally saw the pattern. And about what they are doing differently now that they are raising children of their own, in a country where the family business still goes to the son and women remain a small minority on company boards. Trial by Fire - Stories Beyond Silence is hosted by Sonal Khaira, psychologist. Real conversations about the moments that change us. No lessons, no life hacks. Just honest conversations with people who have lived through fire, and what happened inside them. New episodes every 2nd & 4th Saturday. Instagram:   / trialbyfire_stories   #TrialByFire #StoriesBeyondSilence #GenderBias #GenderDiscrimination #SonPreference #IndianFamily #Podcast