Having read about India’s growing importance in the global world, one can not stop but feel a constant sense of pride and gratitude for being a part of the young generation and see your country transition and transform into a “strategically important destination”. Well, on the other side, one feels like digging ones’ own grave reading about India’s take on sensitive issues…
One such news drew my attention recently, the article about “home-makers” in the category of non-productive workers- catastrophic, to say the least!!! Such shallow act by “a future superpower” is atrocious. Yet another example of inequality in our roots... Its’ not about being a feminist but heavens’ would fall if we don’t wake up from this slumber.
Even the theoretical statement of “economically non-productive workers” is not “in-sync” with the inclusion of home-makers. Ironically, we have replaced “house-wives” with a new term symbolic of a meaning contribution of a woman to the family- “home-makers” and we consider them economically non-productive!!!
If nurturing children, taking care of the spouses, preparing food for the family, shopping for all and sundry and shaping the next generation fully and completely so that they can a carve a niche for themselves is non- productive, then the economists should shut their subject forever. Dr. Manmohan Singh, please have your economists evaluate the monetary worth of home-makers. Our GDP shall soar higher and higher…
The opportunity cost for educated woman (and in an era where even school pass-outs get a decent job, thanks to the still flourishing BPO sector), who “wish” to foster the family and not earn the bucks that attract majority, would turn out to be huge.
An old saying goes, “you are what you had for breakfast”; who does that when the dads are away on business tours and return only to pack their bags for the next one? No one here is trying to under-value men. They ensure a comfortable living for the family and work round the clock to bring the world at their children’s feet. But look at the other wheel of the vehicle also. For a vehicle to be steered as per the drivers’ wish, the conditions of the tyres need to be similar, if not the same.
Wake up India, we are getting a new face and a new place in the world; our richness of culture, history, bonding is unparalleled. Let the case be the same for our thoughts as well…
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