Men or Women?
Yesterday I went to my cousin’s home. My brother and his wife are working couple. They were having a discussion on role and position of Indian women and men esp. in the middle class group. It was very hot discussion as to whether Indian women are at par with men or not. Is it that men and women are sharing equal responsibilities and work in terms of office and household affairs? Or is it that women are responsible for everything in house??
Even if the women is earning as much as the men is that she is responsible to manage the household affairs, to manage the children, to cook food, to clean the house, to take care of everything? though men argue that they have to do all the outside work (though there is hardly any outside work for which they have to go everyday after office:-}). I was asked to give my viewpoint on the same. I didn’t say anything at that time and even now I am very confused with whether is it that "women are still responsible for everything or is it that society is changing and men and women are equally sharing the entire responsibilities"???? The question remains……
posted by Manya Mohan @ 3:28 AM
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2 Comments:
I dont think there is no work that men have to do - grocery shopping is sometimes done by men. What about banking, and other aspects of financial management? One has to think about all aspects of housework and outside work - for both men and women. WHen I started living alone in the US, I realized for the first time, how many things were done in the house by my father that were pretty hard. Not saying that women don't have it hard (sometimes, they do end up with most of the burden), just that think of both sides in a fair manner.
Rashmi (www.rashmisinha.com)
that may be true but now the girls are equally qualified to manage the financial aspects also.. may be they are better finance managers :). my batch mates(only girls) would agree to this..
but the thing is that is the mentality of everyone for women is changing or not?
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