The main reason is that it has been continuing for so long that it’s become a part of our ‘culture’. This is the reason, women trying to move out of this discriminatory prison are often labelled “uncultured’. Many of them are simply doing what is considered normal for men, (and therefore for them too) something as simple as going out late in the evening or night. Gender roles, duties and rights have been so strongly demarcated and assigned to each gender specifically for centuries that any change in that, is frowned upon. Most of the women themselves accept how society treats them and fear teaching their children to challenge the discrimination even within their own families, for the smallest of issues. Centuries of discrimination and its acceptance and propagation as part of a nation’s culture cannot be expected to vanish anytime soon.