Every single girl tells that she hates dowry and she is against to that. Every single guy who have ever asked tells the same.
But none of them had stopped giving nor taking.
When we ask we always get an answer from girl is that it’s difficult getting married that no one is ready to marry without dowry if they are not giving Dowry.
Weird thing is that even from a guy if he said he don't want dowry then he is getting treated as wierd and might be judged as incompitent.
Then the social status comes into picture and makes the guy's life worst by valuing the guys worth based on the dowry he took.
Caution: Everyone points out that how much dowry they gave from the bride's side and never reveals that how much they are expecting from the groom to bring from his parents.
Society or neighbor’s or the relatives had already spoiled the culture that they continue reminding the girls parents that they have to save money for marriage and remind the boy's parents to expect more and more and more dowry.
Yes the previous generation might have manipulated with their previous generation and the pointing out the issue is less and might not have fixed. But we have excellent platforms and are more educated and still facing the problems and still in complaining phase rather than fixing the issue.
I always used to get one doubt, every girl expects that the person that they are going to get marry is not supposed to ask dowry. But before that did you ever asked your brother not to take dowry or just asked gifts only.
If The person who is asking dowry is wrong then at the same time not telling your brother to stop taking dowry is equally wrong.
So this time tell your brother not to take dowry, so maybe some-where the person with whom you might be getting married would have received the same request by his sister.
If your brother have not followed listened or tried this then do you think is there any meaning in Rakhi or Celebrating Raksha Bandan. I hope at least by Next Rakhi festival, we'll pass this to everyone and start a change.
By the way you have missed one bigger thing by thinking about dowry and is not gettiing treated equally but you forget that you are not even getting treated with the things that your get from parents compared to your brother.
Fight for equal treatment from everyone and first fight with the close ones to get equal treatment, then all the other things will come in line.
Caution: Dowry is not only the thing that is wrong, expecting your husband to to get more wealth from his parents is the same level of wrong doing. Its a simple issue which both men & women have and can fix this in just taking one decision and stop worrying about others.
Be a game changer rather than waiting like an audience.