Working Women And Domestic Life

 Working Women And Domestic Life

The concept of liberated woman has come in fashion today. The term chiefly implies a woman who is independent economically. For other things, at least in India, a woman still needs the anchor of a ‘husband and a family. She cannot be liberated in matters of marriage, family, sex or other things. Otherwise she would be called-a loose woman or a slut. When we consider the problems of a working woman in our society, her domestic life comes to mind immediately.
What is a modem working woman like? A working woman today belongs to’ the middle or the lower middle class of society. Working women in the higher echelons of society need not work for a living. If they do work, they do it only-to pass their time. Even otherwise, they do not lead much of a domestic life; household chores are relatively unknown to them. A middle or lower middle class working woman is not at all liberated in true terms. In fact, she has to keep struggling to sail in two boats at the same. She has to work in an office or in an organization full time. Often she is sniggered at; people make passes at her and criticize her work simply because she happens to be a woman.

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However hard working and conscientious she might be in her work, there are people ready to pounce on her and find faults with her, in. order to harass her if she does not submit to their lowed advances. And the poor woman cannot even report against these people for fear of losing her job or her reputation in the eyes of her colleagues, family or the society at large. She indeed has to keep walking on a razor’s edge all the time. Her domestic life is also not smooth. She does not get any reprieve from household work just because of her regular office job. She has to get up early in the morning to finish her household chores, get the children ready for school, prepare breakfast and Tiffin, lunch for her husband and school-going children, clean the house and perform several other household chores before she is ready to leave for her office.