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ould a homemaker's partner need to take up an 'equal' share of the household work? Or is it okay if he focuses on work while she focuses on home?
Should a homemaker’s partner need to take up an ‘equal’ share of the household work? Or is it okay if he focuses on work while she focuses on home?
I’m not cut out to be a stay-at-home woman. And I’m also not someone who will focus on a career above any and everything. It may not be at the top of my list, but a successful career is important to me. After becoming a mother, I realised that so long as my child is well cared for, I would like to spend my days productively in a workplace and not just focusing on child care. Sure I love the extra-time one gets when there isn’t a 9-to-5 to go for – the freedom to schedule things on weekdays, more time exploring the world through the eyes of my little one. But it’s not enough to keep me at home permanently.
I recently decided to take a few months off from work and this gave me an interesting perspective on the difference in mindsets when one is working or not working. One thing, in particular, hit me really hard. I couldn’t help but feel that as a generation we have perhaps become too harsh in judging working fathers. In seething internally, and sometimes vocally, when that office colleague has jokingly washed his hands off all things baby related, have I tried too hard to project my own life situation on him?
Nupur Netan Sachdeva, founder of the Practical Mum blog, writes about simplifying parenting for the hyper-connected mothers of today. She has been working the corridors of financial markets for more than a decade, and read more...
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Children should be taught to aspire to be successful, but success doesn't have to mean an IIT admission only!
Imagine studying for 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 whole years for the JEE exam only to find out that there’s only a very, very slim chance of getting into an IIT. It is a fact widely acknowledged that the IIT-JEE is one of the toughest exams not just in India but in the whole world. Apart from IITs, the NITs and IIITs of India also accept the JEE scores for admission. There are said to be a total of 23 IITs, 31 NITs and 25 IIITs across the country.
Now, let’s first get a few facts about the IITs right. First, according to the NIRF rankings of 2023, only 17 IITs rank in the top 50 engineering colleges of India and only a few (around 5) IITs are in the list of the world’s top 100 engineering colleges. Second, the dropout rate of IIT-qualifying students stands at least at 20%, with reasons being cited ranging from academic pressure and unmanageable workload to caste discrimination and high levels of competition within the IIT.
So, it’s quite clear that the journey of making it through IIT is as challenging as the journey of getting into an IIT. Third and most important of all, the acceptance rate or the odds of getting into an IIT are below 3% which is a lot lower than the acceptance rate of highly and very highly ranked US universities. Four, getting into an IIT of one’s choice doesn’t mean one will also get into a branch of one’s preference at that IIT.
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