Tuesday 9 March 2021

Working Women and Housewives

 

What is the 'work' that will make a woman a 'working woman' ? In the eyes of 'liberated women and men' ? 🤔
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  • Maya Gomez
    Putting money in the bank!
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      Is a maidservent seen as a 'working woman; ?😕
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      'liberated men and women' admire and respect 'working women'. Do they admire and respect the maidservent ??
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    • Maya Gomez
      Why not? They work hard for their living.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      I hope they give her the same admiration and respect they would give a woman CEO. Somehow feel doubtful ...😑
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      Aparna Krishnan
       would they accord a male CEO the same admiration and respect as to say, a head-load worker?
      It depends on the individual and how much exposure they’ve had / how wide their worldview is.
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    • Maya Gomez
      Dignity of work / labour is what it all boils down too.
      In India unfortunately there are age-old associations with caste and class that also come into play. Sadly those shackles will take a lot of ground work on social justice to be completely shaken off.
      Yet we still have the upper-caste Entitled Indians crying and moaning over reservations...
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      Yes its all connected. The privilege, hubris, unwillingness to let go of any of it ...
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    • Anurima Dey
      For some people me included maidservants are God-send.
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    • Anurima Dey
      But they get a off on Sundays. And my neighbour complains that presently her maid has began asking for offs on Sundays.
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  • Anurima Dey
    Completely agree with Samrat Roy Chowdhuri. This coming from a SAHM.
    Always wanted to be with my kids until they begin full time school but the looks and the attitudes I have to tackle are worse than tantrums my kids throw.
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  • Sandhya Manian
    I ask them to change the question, " if I am salaried or not". I work 24/7, 365 days . Vela panriya, illa veetla summadan irukkiya? 😠 How can someone be summa ? Especially women who takes care of home, family, children...




I see posts of women declaring that they don't cook, they head companies !
Or that they don't cook, they are doctors !
When down the road of 'modern womens empowerment' did cooking become an inferior work ??
The same arrogance also refers to us who go to temples superciliously as 'temple going women'.
The so called modern liberated woman has only disdain for us majority women it seems ...
The same arrogance of modern times that looks down on us women who cook daily, and sweep and mop our homes, also looks down on farmers who raise crops !

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  • Samrat Roy Chowdhuri
    I think you are taking it in the wrong way. The video is about cooking being a wish and not a compulsion.
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  • Aparna Krishnan
    This refers to an attitude. An arrogance. Hubris. No reference to any video.
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  • Durga Movva
    I have not seen the video but if somebody would not enjoy or do not prefer to cook I don't see anything wrong in being vocal about it ! It's just moving away from the fact that cooking is just a woman's job.its a personal choice and should not be judged based on the choice they make.
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  • Aparna Krishnan
    Thats perfectly fine. And not the point.
    The 'career woman' looking down on 'housewife' you would have observed ?? Thats the point.
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       : Aparna ! Thats the point ..there are women who enjoy cooking stand like pillars by their families in every step as a homemaker..I don't like the word housewives..they make home a better place. Homemakers they are..And there are women who enjoy being career oriented and try to make the best of what they have at home..Nobody should ever be looked down upon Be it unmarried or married, be it a homemaker or career woman, be it prefer having children or do not prefer bearing children, Be it a girl in a saree or a swimsuit..every woman deserves respect .All of us should help in uplifting each other and not pulling each other down .
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      Durga Movva
       I am calling out a prevalent looking down. Of the so called modern woman on the traditional roles.
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  • Rama Subramanian
    Several who consider themselves 'temple going' also today look down on those who 'cook at home' and vice versa.
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  • Aparna Krishnan
    I am questioning every looking down of existing roles, by those who consider themselves as having transcended them.
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  • Sunny Sandhu
    Very well said
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  • Bharat Ramu
    Our convent schools don't teach kids that people doing blue collar jobs should be paid same and given same respect as white collar jobs also. Hence the class divide.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      Bharat Ramu
       schools can't 'teach'. Society teaches. What do upper class people pay their cooks and maids ? What fraction of their salary ? Why ?
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  • Mamatha Balasubramanian
    The thing is most of us , if not all, look down on someone or the other. If we enjoy cooking, we look down upon those who don’t cook. If we are stay at home moms, we may look down upon those who choose to go to work. It’s not about “modern women” Aparna. I’ve seen temple-going people look down upon those who don’t go to the temple. It’s our egos making us think that others are somehow lesser than us and that we are better than them. Do these distinctions really matter in the larger scheme of things?
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  • Sonali Rao
    Well, as I questioned, hunger has no gender.
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  • Shruti N
    There is also a lot of looking down that happens on women who can't cook very well or don't enjoy cooking very much. It is almost like blasphemy to even mention such things (while the onus of cooking/ feeding the family doesn't rest with the women alone).
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  • Ambika Ramasubramaniyan
    Haha..
    Not just thst..
    Que:Do you work?
    Me: I give music lessons at home , work for the cause of music in non profit organizations I am part of.
    Reply:Oh..you don't go to work is it?
    Me🤔
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  • Ammit Robinson
    Wonder how evolving in the career is inversely proportionate to doing home chores including cooking etc.
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  • Anurima Dey
    I have even been told..."You should work too Anu....then you can "afford" a cook too." I still cook for my family and in the event of a get together everyone pitches in and we have a halluva time. Cooking is the most relaxing and therapeutic activity that I know of.
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  • Meenakshi Negi
    It also means that some of us are not very capable in life skills or organised around the kitchen. It cannot be made a virtue that’s for sure.
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  • Vijay Sj
    After a long long time somebody has stated the obvious and 😀
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