Time to share the load

Once in a meeting at work my female colleague was asked as to how many hours does she work? She replied that she works in two shifts. After finishing her paid job she comes home to the second shift. This
answer of hers made me think as to  how selfish we male are. We have been ever demanding. We want perfect clothes, perfect house, perfect food and every thing perfect around us including a perfect wife. But we have never realized what sacrifices our mother, wives do to gives us all the comforts we get. Today women spend more time of their lives working at office and at home. Women put three more hours each week then men doing the laundry. While the male enjoy these three hours enjoying television or spending leisure time the women of the family are working hard to do the laundry or cleaning the house. Even mothers
who work full-time will still put in a week and a half’s worth more time on household tasks than their male partners each year. Women spend twice the time on child care, housework, cleaning, doing the
laundry than dads do. There is no biological determination for house work or doing the laundry then why this double standard and injustice. Girls are asked to do more work around the house than boys. Girls did two more hours of chores a week while boys got twice as much time to play. This dynamic carries a lesson for both genders. Girls learn that housework falls on their shoulders, and boys learn that girls will clean up after them. As the girls are given the housework, they are trained to do the house work that is why boys tend to assume domestic chores are women’s work. All the women do the chores without pay. Women are told by parents, advertising agencies and a host of other societal forces that they are responsible for keeping the house clean, cooking food, taking care of their husband and children and doing all the laundry of the household. Society molds the way each gender views unpaid work, its household chores. Now it’s time to think of a long term solution to this problem by nipping the prejudice at the bud. Children learn what they see and what they are taught by their parents. So if they see that household chores are the exclusive domain of women, they will carry this prejudice well into adulthood.81% of married men in India agree that their daughters must learn household chores.78% of girls in India agree that they should learn laundry as they will have to do it when they grow up. Now its time to change the way people think or the society thinks. I have started doing my own work and help my mom to do the laundry.

 “I am joining the Ariel #ShareTheLoad campaign at BlogAdda and blogging about the prejudice related to household chores being passed on to the next generation.”