Being a woman - A Woman of Substance...

Every woman carries her responsibility differently. Please don’t compare.

A woman wakes up early and gets ready. She prepares her kids for school. She makes breakfast for the entire family. Serves breakfast. She prepares lunch and dinner. She makes her kids do homework. She manages household chores like dusting, watering plants, washing clothes and ironing them. Makes sure, her house is clean all the time. A woman, a housewife has a lot of things to do. No need to count them. No one can count them either.

On the contrary, there is another woman, who is not a homemaker, but a working mum. She wakes up. Makes food for everyone. She sends her kids to school. Leaves for work leaving some household chores, which she does anyway after coming back. Now here, don’t you feel she needs some rest? Don’t you feel she needs some help? Domestic help? Why calling her husband or someone from the family for help is considered to be deplorable?

I agree with the fact that even a housewife, a homemaker can seek help. The woman is just a human as a man is. She might need help at times and I say, asking for help is nowhere wrong. But does everyone agree to the same? NO.

We are still living in an era where a woman is only meant to do household chores, no matter if she is also a working woman. Society wants to see a woman working all the time….without asking for help. Hey there, asking for help makes a woman shameless… Yes. You read it right. It is totally disgusting. I was surprised to hear this when one of my relatives said so. Her words were, “nowadays, working women shamelessly ask for help…we people used to do everything on our own without asking for help even if we had fever/backache/period cramps or whatever.

I couldn’t reply. I regret that. I could have said that it is a WOMAN’S wish to ask for help. Whenever, wherever she needs help, she can ask for it.