WHERE DO WOMEN STAND IN OUR SOCIETY?

First of all, let me tell you that I am a male and do not want to be judgemental. I just want to throw up a few thoughts for both male and female readers.

Biologically, in any organism, male and female exist. Apart from child bearing,a female has a role to play and so has a male in the smallest unit of society called a family.

Upto 3 years of a child, most of its needs is taken care by the mother. During this phase, the child cannot speak, and communications are not clear, so there is bound to be problems. But this problem is borne by the mother. And the problems can be a great variety, be it hunger, sickness, discomfort, likes & dislikes, wants etc. Do men have such variety of problems with your subordinates or employees.

Have the men noticed the bargaining skills of their wives when shopping. Or  with the vendor selling vegetables?. Next time these men should calculate the percentage of savings.

Have men witnessed women getting the work done from the maid-servants in the house? Just try to equate it with men getting the job done from plumber or electrician. More often they will compromise with the work done ( even sub-standard output) and pay what he asks for, but not women.

Okay. Let us assume that in a family a man is the sole earning member ( a rarity these days). He  hands over a fixed amount to his  wife every month and asks her to manage within that. Examine how she does it. This man may probably take a hint for running his  departmental budget in his company.

Most of the companies have let out housekeeping to women, because it is obvious, isn’t it?. Now HR is being increasingly allotted to women. These jobs demand patience as a virtue and men do not seem to have it nowadays. Presently women have also started to lose this virtue. 

Media projects women serving in army as breaking male bastion. Similarly women have been shown to drive planes,trains and buses. Protection & such outdoor activities have been male preserve for centuries. Instead of  breaking male bastion it is rather denying or appropriating his property, in a way. Lot of women took to jobs and the Government got burdened with providing employment to more people than it could generate. This resulted in both male and female working in many families (to augument their collective income) and none employed in some. Will it not cause a social unrest?.

The current generation of young women have become far removed from tradition. In a new marriage, both the male and female go to work defeating the very purpose of wedlocks. In such homes, food is often sourced from outside and only the night may be spent at home just as if in a hotel. So pitiable is the situation when they leave their 2 year old child in a crèche on the way to work 5 or 6 days in a week, 12 hours daily. It probably is the need of present days that both man and the women go to work. But the source for this is the greed to earn more. We should probably look at the welfare of the society rather than its greed. The solution for this has to evolve through good sense.