Recently what caught my attention was an appalling piece of information on how housewives have been put in the category of unproductive class along with beggars and prostitutes! i feel insulted on behalf of the millions of house wives in India...
I have grown up in a household wherein my mum has been a very competent housewife...and i choose my words very carefully to say competent...because that is what I think...
The work of a home maker, as they now call it, is at par with that of those who go out to earn a living...and it is a thankless job too..if it was not enough that the people of the house do not appreciate a mother's work..now the Indian Government has made it official too..
And to top it all...the other " nominees" are beggars and prostitutes? i mean..really?? are we so closed to what is right and what is wrong...with due respect to all the sex workers...they have a huge business and they are not unproductive at all...circumstances or personal choices have driven them to what is considered a demeaning way of making a living..but so what? they do the work..they are paid for it..they make people happy...and demand and supply continues..
As for the beggars...i do not want to comment about the racket that exists, which has been successfully shown in many of our movies..but it is definitely not worth being put in the category of the afore-mentioned..its the work of the lazy..
Surprisingly..the NGOs and so many other organizations for Naari shakti are hush about the inclusion of this clause in our census..when awareness is actually required..we see the rather influential keeping quiet..
I wish to do just that and also salute the women who make our lives so much simpler...on a personal front..my home would not be the way it is..had it not been for my mother..if we need someone to earn the money...we need someone to know exactly where to put it too..
I want India to awake to this feeling...and to say the least...respect it!
2 comments:
Both housewives and prostitutes being in this category is weird. Neither are unproductive. If they have used the criteria of non-money earning, then prostitutes dont fit there and if they have used the criteria of absence of ethic or so called ethic, then housewives dont fit there. I think they have simply used the criteria of grouping people who dont pay the govt any taxes :P
@neel: informative then!
@didi: yes that's the whole concept. Beggars don't fit with either of the two! and the worst part is taht people don't care enough to even react to this clause and attempt to make a change!
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