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Financial equality in the times of gender equality

          Wife of a Kingfisher employee commits suicide as her husband was not paid his salary for past four months. The incident indeed brought to light, once again, the messed up HR policies and the screwed up financial state of the company, but is that it?          What about the lady who took this extreme step? In all the "good times", her husband was by her side, fulfilling his responsibility towards her and his family, did every possible thing to keep her happy, but in the "not so good times", she succumbed to the stressful situations and left him by ending her life instead of standing by him and being his support.          Although in my opinion, the decision of that lady was a feeble and irresponsible one, but I also feel that blaming her alone would be unfair. Somewhere, somehow, its the entire society that's responsible. She ain't the one alone, there are many more women out there in our society, who in the times of difficulty, unfortunately eve