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Is the condition of working women in India equitable, or do they just gain a second job besides all the home-making duties?
The excitement of getting a star (*) in class used to be the best feeling in the world when we were kids; but as we grow, stars change their meaning and so does our feeling for them.
People say, “We support gender equality and women’s empowerment”. I say that we don’t really support it – we just talk about it.
The word gender describes the socially constructed roles and responsibilities that societies consider appropriate for men and women. I believe that many Indian men want their wives to work but with certain predefined terms and conditions.
Being working women, we face a lot of challenges in our day-to-day lives. I believe that many working women can relate to this story.
My husband and I work in the same organization. Our working hours are the same, we travel together to our workplace and we have similiar levels of work pressure and stress. In spite of having an equal amount of challenges at the workplace, there is a big difference in my Job** and my husband’s Job. My job** comes with stars!
Let’s check out what these **(stars) actually mean.
**Terms and Conditions apply :
These are the some of the terms and conditions which we as working women face in our daily lives. There are many such conditions which we have to deal with everyday.
It is not a world where women can choose their priorities. It is a man’s world and women are allowed to do whatever they want – but with some stars attached to it!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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