That's the whole thing. My cousins are married and they are happy and have healthy relationships. Not to overtly praise my family or anything, but my family has a lot of flaws but gender discrimination is not one of them.( By family I mean cousins and uncles)
By the daily soap standards our family is quite scandalous. So I have never really seen a families quite like the daily soap ones. Is it because I live in illusionary bubble of my own or is it because this crap is intended for the rural audience? I live in a city.
Having said that, I recently visited a village where Amul butter and ice creams were a novelty till about a couple of years ago. Amul is a very popular brand where I live. So it came as a shock. They would get bread only on Sunday morning, that to in limited quantities. If you were lucky enough to reach in time then great, otherwise sorry... Women still avoid traveling alone during the day let alone at night. A woman who rides a scooty is called modern. This village is actually only a couple of hours drive from a very big metropolitan city. So as you leave the city behind, the life changes drastically.
The lives of rural women is not so good. Or is in fact horrible. So maybe this crap is meant for them. Because they definitely will not like a strong girl who takes on the world. It would seem unrealistic to them when they themselves are trapped in their own homes...