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When a couple runs a business together, the wife is often treated as a minor partner or even 'just a wife'. Isn't this downright insulting?
I have been a business partner with my husband for more than a decade running the operations for our business. However, for various domestic reasons, I have worked from home.
This means visiting office once a week for a decade (even before covid made WFH the norm) and being out of in-person social or business events and meetings.
Time has flown and now I have the bandwidth to get back to the normal working ways. It angers me when people treat you as just THE WIFE. Strangers you meet at business events come up with a lot of advice on how women should be working and going out of the home and partying etc. Now, this is a clueless outsider thinking I am a helpless wife who tags along with my husband for parties.
I feel like shouting from the rooftops for them to shut up and look carefully at a perfectly competent woman, multitasking, running a business and equally capable as her spouse. In most cases, people look at you as the wife!I recommend such folks to read Sudha Murthy’s ‘Gently falls the Bakula’ to appreciate women and capabilities and never, never belittle us.
Experiences like these happen everyday. From colleagues to business persons, all seem to not take the woman seriously, more so because she is the wife. Let me affirm that husbands and wives make great entrepreneurs.
Here are some tips for women considering partnership with their better halves (or anyone else for that matter):
Image credits: Photo by Alok Verma on Unsplash
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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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