Should girls get a formal education? Should women earn? And who should handle the money they earn, if at all? Can a woman’s personality be tied to learning and earning? These questions may be easily overlooked in the 21st century, when women have forayed into almost all possible careers. However, these and more questions related to women’s education, employment and empowerment find clear answers in the so-called moral stories in Hindi and other Indian languages, one finds on YouTube these days. The paper analyzes a selection of such stories centered on women and argues how these ‘moral stories’ ultimately emerge as schemes to keep the patriarchal structure alive by creating an easily accessible digital repository, and end up patronizing women in the pretext of empowering them. The paper focuses particularly on the idea of ‘moral’ these stories contain and argues that the moral messages they convey are actually detrimental to the empowerment of women as their deep structures work to cement the foundations of patriarchy.

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教育学的数字剂量：通过 YouTube 上的道德故事加强父权制

女孩应该接受正规教育吗？女人该不该赚钱？如果有的话，谁应该处理他们赚到的钱？女人的性格能与学习和收入挂钩吗？在 21 世纪，当女性涉足几乎所有可能的职业时，这些问题可能很容易被忽视。然而，这些以及更多与女性教育、就业和赋权相关的问题在印地语和其他印度语言的所谓道德故事中找到了明确的答案，这些天在 YouTube 上可以找到。该论文分析了一系列以女性为中心的故事，并论证了这些“道德故事”如何最终成为通过创建一个易于访问的数字存储库来维持父权制结构的计划，并最终以赋予女性权力为借口而光顾女性。