Yesterday I and my friends were arguing over whether we should 'choose' a working woman or housewife. But does it really a matter of choice for man only? In our Indian society, if we go with majority, why can't girls approve and reject boys in the same way boys do??
Anyways, without drifting from the original topic, for me it seems to be a selfish decision of choosing a housewife over a working woman. Every woman is not built in the same way - stay home and wash somebody's socks. I am not considering, here, the fact that there are lots of luxuries now a days for woman to finish her household work quicker and without much effort. But cleaning clothes, house or making food in lesser time; is it really a luxury for her?
With due respect to our Indian values, She ought to live with her husband and kindly, claiming nothing as her own property, but preserving and protecting his bed; this protection contains all. In a bee-ring manner she should bear any stroke of fortune that may strike her husband; whether he is unfortunate in business, or makes ignorant mistakes, is sick, intoxicated. She should likewise patiently bear his husband's anger, his parsimony, complaints he may make of his destiny, his jealousy and whatever other faults he may inherit from his nature. All these she should cheerfully endure, conducting herself towards him with prudence and modesty. A wife who is dear to her husband who truly performs her duties towards him but do woman only exists to perform all these 'duties'? Isn't it egoistic from men side??
About duties of true Indian woman, I read somewhere - "A girl, a young woman, or even an old woman should not do anything independently, even in (her own) house. In childhood a woman should be under her father's control, in youth under her husband's, and when her husband is dead, under her sons'. She should not have independence. A woman should not try to separate herself from her father, her husband, or her sons, for her separation from them would make both (her own and her husband's) families contemptible...."
Isn't this time to change all these sayings and myths about the Indian woman? Who do men continue to think in the same way?
If we sit back and start finding answers to al the above questions, the only thing came to my mind - men wants to continue his dominance over woman for the ages.
In the present civilization, where we expect women to take part in all the social or corporate activities, isn’t this attitude preventing us to think beyond where women can go rubbing shoulders with men??
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