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Homemakers or as we often call them, 'housewives' are IMO the most underestimated and disrespected of women. Time this changed.
I am so glad to write about this as homemakers were and till are the most undervalued and underestimated.
Having grown up in Indian society, I have witnessed people disrespecting homemakers by delivering various comments like, “saara din ghar par to hoti ho karti kya ho” (being at home what do you do full day), “housewives ke pass to bahut time hota hai” (housewives have a lot of time), “subah kaam hota hai fir to free hi free saara din” (you have work in the morning and then you are free the whole day).
I am a working woman and I confess that I can go to work because earlier my mother and now my mother-in-law share responsibilities with me. People feel the work of a homemaker is easy but honestly, it’s not. I see my mother-in-law waking up at 6 am and working non-stop till night. In fact, I would say the life of some working individuals are much more sorted and simple than that of a homemaker.
The life of a homemaker just passes by in taking care of the family members. I mean the time they devote, the effort they put in, the love they deliver, all these are nowhere in comparison to the working individual. Leaving aside everything else, the biggest thing a homemaker does is feed you.
I still remember my school days when during summer my brother and I used to reach the house by 2; at 1 only she used to switch on the cooler and roll the curtains to make the environment breezy and used to serve us shikanji. Buying vegetables of our choice, ironing our clothes, arranging the wardrobe, taking care of children and the list is too long; at times I feel what a mess my life would have been without my mother and today without my mother-in-law.
I don’t know whether it’s the mindset or the lack of principles that we require such kind of judgments to prove the value of a homemaker. When I look at the sacrifices of a homemaker, sometimes I even feel ashamed.
Thank you Supreme Court for this much-required statement and I hope people will start respecting homemakers at least now though they deserve it since the beginning.
Image source: YouTube/ a still from English Vinglish
Smriti Malhotra is a Delhi girl and an avid dreamer. She works at the Embassy of the Republic of Congo by profession but is a writer by passion. She began writing while at school and read more...
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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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