What is a 'Women's Job'?


The other day I was in the kitchen, packing lunch in a hurry & my husband shouts from our room - If you're going to be late I am not going to wait for you. My cook immediately tells me - We women have always so much work to do, so easy for Bhaiya to get up in the morning, get ready & leave.

Another instance I recollect is my mom in-law telling me, I'll teach you all nice dishes so that you can cook once I am gone, also today you’ve a cook tomorrow what if you don't find cooks. Logic wise it was correct but she NEVER turned to her son expected only me to learn. The actual shocker was when my team's Head/CEO comes to me after my marriage & asks me if I know how to cook & time & again brings it up!

If it's not cooking then taking care of a child. I know & have heard so many people talk if they see a man taking care of a child & the mother sitting & doing nothing or probably eating (Especially in marriages). Talks like - What kind of woman is this left her kids for her husband to take care, even to the extent that then she shouldn't have given birth to her kids!

This is not a hate blog I love my mother-in-law , my boss is good but when will the society change, when will we be free from stereotypes I am still at an AM level I know that my female manager or anybody even in the management has the same problem just some things differ.

Am I the only one who feels this is wrong on so many levels?!! On one side we say men & women are equals, we must be given equal opportunities but how will we make the most of it when our duties & expectations from families are not the same?

My question is - What is a women's job?
Have our basic fundamentals changed? By that I mean - Did are ancestors or the previous generations get it right? Where the woman managed the house & the man was the bread earner. Have we screwed the system or with nature when women started earning & equally sharing?

If we need change, change would come if men & woman are treated as equals! When cooking is taught to both or importance of earning money are taught to both & more. I understand that some things will always be different like physical, emotionally.

It’s time we bring some change, like they say Charity begins @ home, even this change needs to happen from our house. We need to teach our daughters & son that they are equals.

Divya Dutta has perfectly pit exactly what I want to say:




What do you guys think?


Comments

  1. I agree WID u completely...have the same belief n luckily, the sane is implemented in my house too..but still there r instances, though jokingly, hubby tells me smtms ki u come aramse..I will cook n keep, u only eat..n do on...but I do my work..my duty towards my child without beinh told, take care of his parents as mine..but not once say even joking that u just rest n so on...as I believe in the principle of gender equality n distribution of work, even though not equally....

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