Someone please tell Rediff to read up their own research and stop getting information from Forbes.
Recent studies have also found professional women are more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat, less likely to have children, and, if they do have kids, they are more likely to be unhappy about it.
What do YOU think? Are you career woman who agrees or refutes this argument? Are you a guy who is attracted to career-oriented women? Or do you prefer a partner who is a homemaker? Tell us.
Do you think that a marriage where both partners are career-oriented is doomed? Share your thoughts and experiences.
What is even more disheartening is the flood of SIF like comments flooding the message board. Other than some voices that appeal to me, I feel like sending most of the others back to their respective caves, now that they have finished typing out their messages. The saddest bit (for me, maybe not for you, oh-ready-to-pounce reader) is that women have to justify their career ambitions by insisting that they can balance household work and homemaking. Nice, isn’t it wonderful to work in two shifts, and perhaps three shifts once you have a baby? Trust me, I wasn’t born with a ladle and recipe book in hand. When do you see articles on Rediff asserting that career men should be balancing their wonderful personalities with the ability to maintain a “harmonious” household?
This is not to say that house work is less important than “working outside the house”. But the loss of opportunity is much larger, and yes, the choices women make are not always supported by their male partners. In fact, majority of the labour force (if you include agricultural labour) in the world is actually women. Those people who believe that India has only seen women in the role of home makers need to look outside their middle class windows. Women have always worked, it’s just that they have never threatened the place of men or authority to the extent that they do now. Going by the message board on Rediff, our Indian boys have a lot of growing up to do.
And what is this irritating annoying differenciation between career women and working women – will someone please tell me? Argh.
Diff between career women and working women? The latter only works to support her husband, finishes her job and gets back home before the husband, does all the housework, welcomes the husband home with a lovely smile when he turns up after a hard days work, seats him down on the sofa, removes his shoes and offers him coffee and snacks (still smiling).
The career species on the other hand totally ignores the husbands needs, parties every night, smokes, doesn’t give any mariyadhai to the elders, kind of like the villies (female version of villains) in the old films. Idhu kooda theriyaadhaa and you are Indian and all :)
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WA: Ess. Ess. In some cases the latter also has a white pomeranian for a pet. Or maybe that’s just Tam movies!