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Yashma Gill debunks the ‘gold digger stereotype’, encourages women to be financially independent

Yashma Gill was a guest on the Nadir Ali podcast, a clip of which has gone viral, where she passionately spoke out against the misogynist stereotype that women are gold-diggers. Ali said that in our society today, a man’s ugliness is considered his empty pocket: “Regardless of whether he is good-looking or not, he looks awful without having money. He is told to go and earn money.” Gill corrected this statement by pointing out that that many women in successful, happy marriages are earning more than their husbands so this stereotype that women are only in love with money isn’t true: “I will not give any names, but around us there are a lot of examples where a woman is more successful than her husband, and they had love marriages…Regardless of these people belonging to my field or not..I don’t like the stigma attached to women that we are gold diggers.” Ali brought up a sexist stereotype about women gaining financial independence and abandoning men: “When a man earns, he hands over...