It is high time that we start realising the effort that women put into domestic work. Without domestic work, the country cannot run. And we need to keep this in mind before sidelining women’s efforts as the duty of their gender.
Is the Superwoman Syndrome a way to recognise the value of women’s efforts or is it just a patriarchal setup to continue oppressing them?
Kangana Ranaut said that housemakers are “queens” of their own kingdom and they don’t need people to put a price tag on their love.
Even Michelle Obama recalls how she’d get mad at Barack for always finding time to work out when she didn’t have time to get her hair in place.
Behind all sincere employees who report to work come hell or high water, is a spouse who has their back. But partners who chose to take up house hold resposibilites and support their hard working and ambitious spouse seldom get the recognition they deserve.
Our narrative needs to change when it comes to our perception of women who choose to be homemakers post their marriage. This has been put forth time and again, and yet like a knee jerk reflex, many of us go on to show our lack of regard for homemakers by adding the word ‘just’ before […]
Isn’t home the workplace for homemakers? How then these women are different from ‘professionals’? Recent Anand Mahindra’s tweet on working women made me think and ask some questions. My simple query is ‘Why is there no inclusion of wives (as stakeholder) of a husband working with company,’ in CSR definition. There is a reason behind this. I […]
Vanessa wasn’t happy at all about being described as ‘homemaker’ in the byline of an article she wrote. In a profile she sent to the newspaper, she had clearly listed all the things she was – theatre professional, copywriter, and author. Despite that, her byline began, “Homemaker Vanessa writes…” “What do they mean, HOMEMAKER? What […]
A new report by consulting firm Zinnov shows women homemakers have collectively made around $9 billion in gross sales using Whatsapp and Facebook. The report, carried by Times Of India, said that sales through these mediums are projected to grow anywhere between $48 billion to $60 billion by 2022. Most small businesses start out with just […]
A group of four grandmothers from Delhi drove down to Rameshwaram and back last year, documenting the highs and lows.
