They treat their women like scum over there. it's a cultural thing.
Atually they don't so much these day and it's no more than there was a similar culture in the west.
Indeed the main religion in India is far more pro women than Christianity.
It's not just 'their' women, either. About 95% of the male Indian staff here are total pricks to the female staff. They have quite the rep. Not so much the younger generation, but the older ones.