Long time ago there was an era
where Husband was “The Earner” and Wife was “The Homemaker”. It was time where life was less complicated
and Men and Women shoulder equal amount of work to live a balanced life.
As
time passed the Husband’s work as Earner started getting intricate. Various
obstacles came in Husband’s way of earning such as saturation due to increase
in population, Invention of machines replacing man power and many more. Apart
from tons of difficulties in earning money Husband started worrying about
increase in cost of living. When inflation was making Husband bite his nails,
at that time Wife shared the load and became “Co-Earner”.
Wife
as “Co-earner” shared Husband’s responsibilities and started earning and
contributing as a co-provider of the family, but she never resigned from the
role of “Homemaker”. She performed dual role and hence slowly the balance of
life began to disturb. Women never give up on her responsibilities and started
restoring the balance. She worked for same time as Husband as “Co-Earner” and
also she did cooking, cleaning and laundry work as “Homemaker”. Now there are 85%
working women in India performing dual Job.
As
life partner Husband and Wife should shoulder each other’s responsibilities. As
soon as wife started working as “Co-earner”, it was husband’s duty to take a
role of “Co-homemaker” and restore the balance of life. But did not happen then
and it is not happening in this current era. It is sad that 76% Men thing that
laundry is women’s job and so is cleaning and cooking and even if they help it
seems as favour not responsibility. This kind of attitude is little bit of Men’s
Fault but major fault lies in the partiality in the upbringing of Man and Woman
by society.
I
have shared some thoughts about how the balance of life got disturbed as all
households work and office work lies on wife’s lap, but there is solution to restore
the balance again. Let us see how -
1. While
raising girl as we educate her to get a job as well as manage her home, then
while raising boy why just to educate on getting a job.
2. As
per Ariel statistics 76% Men feel that Laundry is Women’s job, but even remaining
24% Men can’t share the load of their wives. You know why? Because Society treats
calls them as “less of Man”. It is important to educate society that working at
office doesn’t make wife as “less of women” and in the same way helping in
households or doing laundry does not make any husband “less of Man”.
3. When
a Husband understands his wife and tries to restore balance of life by helping
his wife then do encourage him. Such a kind of attitude can make a difference
and may be after few year 100% men will share load of their wives.
P.S.- Thanks to Ariel for raising the question #IsLaundryOnlyAWomansJob and giving us an opportunity to share my thoughts.
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