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Pro-transgender participants made supportive statements 2.5 times more frequently than anti-transgender statements during discussions, relying on moral arguments regarding rights and equality. Participating in group discussion raised participants' estimates of their neighbors' willingness to hire transgender workers by 24 percentage points.
Upper-caste Hindu women face 50% more social restrictions than Scheduled Caste women (index score 0.75 vs 0.48), whereas lower-caste Scheduled Caste women exhibit higher baseline business ownership (31% vs 27%) and higher financial autonomy due to necessity-driven earnings [12, 14, 16].
Index measurements established that Muslim women faced the most severe mobility restrictions, followed by upper-caste Hindu women, whereas scheduled-caste Hindu women faced the least severe restrictions. Business training with peer support was most effective among women facing severe social restrictions.