The other day I was watching Desperate housewives ..and as i got sucked in the seemingly mundane lives of the characters…i started wondering whether the Indian women are desperate too..
Desperate to have a baby, desperate to maintain their status-quo, desperate to prove their individuality in a family that takes it for granted, desperate to be seen and be acknowledged as a nurturer…
And if they are desperare …are they desperate enough to do something about it? (as in the soap).
Well..i’ll tell you the case of my aunt..an intelligent and ambitious woman..Phd. in psychology..flying high in her chosen career. She was forced to sacrifice her career to adorn the identity of Mrs. so and so..yup to become a housewife. When she rebelled she was told nonchalantly that why did she need to move out of her house when her husband earned so well and provided her with all the material comforts..? why indeed?
Doesn’t she want to be a good wife, a good daughter-in-law, a good mother?
Can’t she be a good wife..and so and so without sacrificing her individuality? Why does she have to lose one facet of her personality to adorn the other?
Wont she be a desperate housewife then…desperate and restless? Desperate to break the forced strings of relationship?
Even when a woman becomes a housewife…willingly so..why is it that her contribution to the household is not acknowledged…why is she taken for granted?
This thought popped in my head as i was watching a hindi soap ” thodi khushi thode gham”..where the daughters-in -law of the household protest against the lack of acknowledgement and appreciation from the male members of the household.
Why is it so difficult to appreciate the contribution of the housewives…the home-maker?
I feel that in some aspects its the housewife to be blamed ..as she never makes others feel the importance of the work she does to enable the household to run smoothly.
As one woman said when asked about about what she does…”I’m just a housewife”!!!
Women…stand up and be proud…as you do the toughest job in the world…
tough and often thankless…
Make your worth known…coz others wont respect your job if you dont respect yours…
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Nice blog….thats great keep it up….
very true…shipra…being a housewife for a woman is a full time job that pays you nothing and that is a thankless job but all said and done, respect comes from heart..its all abt sharing love and affection and thats what housewife does…they share love and affection and will get it..in any form..”I truly salute all the housewives..” for the kind of tough job they do…
Fantastically said…………Indian women have become so desperate that they have becoem numb now
yeah shipra u are right.. woemn multitask all their lives..and are still made to feel inadequate. i think being a parent is by far the toughest job in the world.
Ver much impressed with your words, shipra. Me too want to scream out loud at times when i see it in my own family! don”t u think it’’s high time we start something..call me
So true Shipra. But I sincerely wish this spirit of respecting oneself should be instilled within every girl child from a very young age.
I agree…women hv conclusively proven that they can do all types of jobs of “men’’s” world….but I dont know of any man who has been a successful homemaker…
shipra u are right a housewife should be called a homemaker ;if we calculated the economic cost of the house wife’’s work the same would be very high
Very True Shipra.What you are saying is absuletely true.But there are also men who understand the importance of woman in every aspect of life.
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