How Women Pay The Price Of Knowing It All!
A humorous look at why women must have all the answers and the toll that this pressure takes on them.
household chores
Unwanted Chores: Why Do They Always End Up On Women’s To-Do List?
We took the women of our houses as working machines, they never stopped and never got tired. In fact, we do not even acknowledge their ‘unpaid labour’.
Why Is Doing Chores A Duty For Me But Not My Brother?
Women in India are so concerned with catering to men’s every need that they would rather work alone than be judged for accepting help.
Dear Fathers, Before Asking Kids To Help Their Mother In Kitchen, Do It Yourself
Helping mothers with housework is said to be a moral duty of kids. However, men helping their wives in the kitchen is seen to be against the grain of patriarchy.
Men Earn, Women Do Housework: Why This Isn’t Equal Division Of Labour
If housework and job were equal responsibilities to run a house, then why aren’t both paid labour?
Why Do Indian Women End Up Performing Unpaid Labour Over Paid Work
Women often internalise the idea that it is their job to perform household chores and they must prioritise it above employment- which is seen as a privilege.
Men Can Choose Which Household Chores They Want To Do, But Women Can’t. Why?
Can a woman refuse to clean the stinky muck that might have accumulated below the kitchen sink? No, but her husband can and that’s not fair.
Teaching Sons How To Cook Is Fine, But Who Will Teach Them To Clean Afterwards?
Mere cooking and leaving everything out of place for women to come and assemble doesn’t count as helping with household chores.
Multitasking Or Overworked? Why Do We Romanticise Women’s Domestic Duties
Women need to ask what the society stands to gain from romanticising all the chores that they do as “multitasking”?
Homemade Drudgery: Why Burden The Woman To Complete Chores By Hand?
Why exactly is it a woman’s job to do each and every chore in the house? How and when was this decision taken and by whom?
