In what context has the phrase 'double standards' (line 5) been used in the passage?
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A woman’s role has been circumscribed within a narrow
domain where
she is in just the lead role of a wife and a
mother. Her
individuality remains secluded. Comparatively
no
man’s mission is to be a father or a husband alone. Why
(5) does the society have such double
standards? If both sexes
share the
responsibility of upbringing their children why
woman alone
is assigned to play the key role? She is
considered
menial to a man, though not morally or legally.
Her supreme
duty is to love, marry and rear children.
(10) There are many such females who do not get
all this in
succession,
but that does not declare a woman’s defeat in
her
individuality. The growing sensationalism has excited the
issue
further. Literature and media all portray love so passionately
and woman at
the central position of this emotion. This leads to
(15) an exaggeration of the sentiment and display
of feminism. A
life, hence,
devoid of love seems a failure and deprivation of
marriage a
shortcoming. But is it that the emotion (love) we
recall so
often present in all the marriages?