This is the universal truth that men always feel that women are responsible for taking care of household duties as they see their mother, sister, wife and daughter practising the same. The word "Grahni" means a housewife and hence even if a woman is a working women, when she reaches home, she has to perform her household duties in addition to working in the office. It doesn't only happen in India, but it also happens with Indians living abroad. I have many NRI friends who keep sharing their experience at home with me and I used to get shocked when they used to say how they had to clean their house daily, make food for their husband and even do the laundry work in spite of working out in the office.
Here I would like to share one such experience of my friend who had an interesting thing to say when asked about it:
I was working in an office and at that time, I used to work as a freelancer. My friend too was working as a freelance in the same company and she spoke about how she does all the work at home in addition to spare time to work at home. She was once attending a conference call and talking to a foreigner but the timing of the call was not feasible to her as she had to complete her household responsibilities as well. She had to delay the conference call and when her client asked her about the same, she answered that she had to prepare breakfast, lunch box and get the clothes ready for her husband which was the reason she delayed the call. Her husband goes to office at 7:00 a.m. and she has to get everything done by 6. The client was quite surprised hearing this and she said "Why can't husbands do their own work? We also are working women and they need to understand that household responsibilities need to be shared. I too am married but my husband gets his work done himself." On hearing this, my friend was shocked and she shared this with her husband who said that the client lives in a different country while they don't and here only women need to do the household work.
The above example is just one experience that I got to hear and it was quite interesting to note the difference between two cultures while both are right in someway and wrong in the other way. Ariel has brought a change in our thinking and has shown that husbands can take the load of their own laundry work and women need not be responsible for everything. Today's women are self independent and men should stop being dependent on us for everything.
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.
Here I would like to share one such experience of my friend who had an interesting thing to say when asked about it:
I was working in an office and at that time, I used to work as a freelancer. My friend too was working as a freelance in the same company and she spoke about how she does all the work at home in addition to spare time to work at home. She was once attending a conference call and talking to a foreigner but the timing of the call was not feasible to her as she had to complete her household responsibilities as well. She had to delay the conference call and when her client asked her about the same, she answered that she had to prepare breakfast, lunch box and get the clothes ready for her husband which was the reason she delayed the call. Her husband goes to office at 7:00 a.m. and she has to get everything done by 6. The client was quite surprised hearing this and she said "Why can't husbands do their own work? We also are working women and they need to understand that household responsibilities need to be shared. I too am married but my husband gets his work done himself." On hearing this, my friend was shocked and she shared this with her husband who said that the client lives in a different country while they don't and here only women need to do the household work.
The above example is just one experience that I got to hear and it was quite interesting to note the difference between two cultures while both are right in someway and wrong in the other way. Ariel has brought a change in our thinking and has shown that husbands can take the load of their own laundry work and women need not be responsible for everything. Today's women are self independent and men should stop being dependent on us for everything.
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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