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'My in-laws are too great,' she said, 'They — "allow" me to wear jeans even though I am wed....' Another one said her husband was too good, 'He sometimes even cooks his own food!'
‘My in-laws are too great,’ she said, ‘They— “allow” me to wear jeans even though I am wed…’
Another one said her husband was too good, ‘He sometimes even cooks his own food…’
Both of them were working, I thought,
One of them earned higher than her husband, does she not?
Then why this general notion of, ‘being allowed,’ — why is cooking and cleaning only the wife’s job?
Why this ignorance, why no awareness?
Aren’t the women empowered, or are they their husbands’ governess ?
‘When you will marry you will know,’ I got a reply befitting
Do they want me to have the same issues they face? I thought there sitting…
The problem lies in the age-old notion of the differences in gender,
The wife wears a saree and sindoor, and is constantly the bender…
The husband is the stronger one, the mighty and the lord,
Their sensitiveness is a weakness, it is a general concord.
Doesn’t this difference harm both of them, and yet they readily agree,
I feared marriage more and more and when I hear, ‘Wedding,’ I flee…
Then another friend of mine got married and somehow made me meet her,
She was a homemaker looking for a job, and I was afraid to talk further…
But when she told the story of her house, she said, ‘My husband and I fight like siblings.’
Her in-laws are like her parents, and the next part to many will sting…
Her in-laws and parents divided the expenses and gifted her their heirlooms.
Spending was minimal, and she was happy, and there was no sight of a doom…
What I realized is to get over differences and accept people as they are,
The notion of manliness and femininity are way too old and sour.
The secret is to be happy and never mean any harm and do your work and be yourself and always keep ‘KAAM SE KAAM’.
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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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