More women are entering the workforce, moving beyond teaching and nursing into STEM, aviation, and entrepreneurship. You can find inspiring accounts in books like 108 Stories of the Great Indian Common Women Girl Power
Education has been the single greatest catalyst for change. The (Save Daughter, Educate Daughter) campaign has improved girl child enrollment. However, quality varies.
into specific regional cultures (e.g., Bengali vs. Punjabi lifestyles).
The lifestyle of the Indian woman today is not one culture, but many living simultaneously. You will find a corporate lawyer in Bangalore who fasts on Tuesdays for the goddess, an IIT graduate who chooses to be a ghar grihasti (homemaker), and a transgender woman leading a Mata ki Chowki (religious ceremony) in a temple.