I am thankful to Ariel for giving me this opportunity to add
my powerful voice to the Ariel #ShareTheLoad activity at BlogAdda!
“I am joining the Ariel #ShareTheLoad campaign at BlogAdda and blogging about the prejudice related to household chores being passed on to the next generation.”
A gender double standard has always been a part of our society till today. I have been witnessing such indiscrimination’s since childhood. Household chores are the exclusive domain of women and men are not expected to do domestic and kitchen work. Why this discrimination. It is true children learn from their parents and follow what is happening in the house. Its shocking but true that 2 out of every 3 children think that washing clothes is a mothers job.78% of girls in India agree that they should learn laundry as they will have to do it when they grow up. When girls are working full time then why 81% of married men of India agree that their daughters must learn household chores. While we talk of equality of both genders the mindset of people are the same. I have been seeing my grand mother doing all the household work and my mother was taught the same that all the household work is to be done by the women of the house including the laundry of the males of the house. Now in today’s scenario when girls are working and are financially independent but still she is expected to do the laundry of the household. If any male is seen doing the laundry he is called a joru ka gulam or being criticized by elders and friends. When I met a boy for matrimonial alliance I was told clearly that apart from doing my job I was supposed to do the entire house cleaning and washing the clothes. I want a husband who respects women’s independence and agrees to share the workload including helping me with the laundry.
“I am joining the Ariel #ShareTheLoad campaign at BlogAdda and blogging about the prejudice related to household chores being passed on to the next generation.”
A gender double standard has always been a part of our society till today. I have been witnessing such indiscrimination’s since childhood. Household chores are the exclusive domain of women and men are not expected to do domestic and kitchen work. Why this discrimination. It is true children learn from their parents and follow what is happening in the house. Its shocking but true that 2 out of every 3 children think that washing clothes is a mothers job.78% of girls in India agree that they should learn laundry as they will have to do it when they grow up. When girls are working full time then why 81% of married men of India agree that their daughters must learn household chores. While we talk of equality of both genders the mindset of people are the same. I have been seeing my grand mother doing all the household work and my mother was taught the same that all the household work is to be done by the women of the house including the laundry of the males of the house. Now in today’s scenario when girls are working and are financially independent but still she is expected to do the laundry of the household. If any male is seen doing the laundry he is called a joru ka gulam or being criticized by elders and friends. When I met a boy for matrimonial alliance I was told clearly that apart from doing my job I was supposed to do the entire house cleaning and washing the clothes. I want a husband who respects women’s independence and agrees to share the workload including helping me with the laundry.
Women are treated
like prisoners no magazines to read, no outings or parties. Girls were not even
allowed to talk loudly whereas the boys are allowed to shout, play and run
carefree. And these rules were handed over from one women generation to
another. I always heard in my childhood from my grandmother that being woman was a curse. Today women are lucky and
have wide opportunities. We are career women, homemaker or both. Both roles are
demanding, competition oriented multiple roles which are both an emotional and physical stress for women. Unfortunately women lack support of family. Women
have developed more through the passage of time they are good in offices and
good homemakers and bringing up children as well. But these demanding multiple
roles do not leave enough time for themselves. Let’s break this prejudice and
stop passing this wrong ideology to our next generation.
“I am joining the Ariel #ShareTheLoad campaign at BlogAdda and blogging about the prejudice related to household chores being passed on to the next generation.”
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