Indian housewives are beating down tradition and discrimination to study to be Hindu priests.
Seventy-two year old, Sailja Joshi is the oldest female student at a school in west India says “host families have more trust in female priests because they perform rituals sincerely.”
Men vastly outnumber women in religious roles, despite there being nothing in Hindu holy books banning women to do so; rather it has been centuries of convention that have dictated only high class men who can become priests.