Starting when we’re very young, girls are taught that there’s a strict set of rules we have to follow if we want to be liked. As little girls, we have to be seen and not heard. Feminine but not too girly. Sexy but not slutty. We’re always walking a fine line.  In the corporate sphere, many studies say that women who are seen as competent and ambitious aren’t likeable. Women who are likeable are seen as incompetent. The two cannot go hand-in-hand.

In this episode, we unpack who a “likeable” woman is. Do the same behaviours and traits that make men likeable, make women unlikeable? And how does this definition of a well-liked woman change when our caste, class, sexual, racial and religious identities come into play?

Mallika Dua talks about being labeled a 'difficult woman' and speaks about how she started experiencing anxiety after she shifted to entertainment industry. She also answers to the question How does our society treats men and women differently? Mallika Dua tells how she feels uneasy about being political and talks about the disadvantage of being popular and cancel culture and how she deals with trolls. Priyanka Paul, an artist and an activist, speaks about what likeability means to Queer people and how Queer people don't fit in the idea of 'normal'  and shares how does Priyanka Paul speaks about these issues with her family? The sort of abuse Angellica Aribam and Kiruba Munusamy face? Swara Bhaskar, Vidya Balan, Sagarika Ghose and Fatima Khan on likeability.U