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.
A humorous look at why women must have all the answers and the toll that this pressure takes on them.
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’.
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.
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.
If housework and job were equal responsibilities to run a house, then why aren’t both paid labour?
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.
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.
Mere cooking and leaving everything out of place for women to come and assemble doesn’t count as helping with household chores.
Women need to ask what the society stands to gain from romanticising all the chores that they do as “multitasking”?
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?