You can't force him to switch his mind and you must not be pushing him in to a corner by demanding answers. Everything seems like it's out of your hands completely and you also don't sense that you do have a leg to face on. You can get a number of that power back - you just need to be as calm as is possible and ride out this storm together with your dignity as well as your self-respect still firmly available. Female MBA candidates in India expressed more desire for changing social norms than their male counterparts. Some of these women stated that they can appreciated the needs of minorities given that they too were ‘oppressed’. Several sought an improved workplace persons over personal power; they desired to apply ’feminine’ values in society, perhaps through harnessing the Indian esteem for the ‘mother’ to professional life.