FAMILY AND GENDER ROLES

FAMILY AND GENDER ROLES( THE FIRST OF THE BEST 5 )
BY SWATHI .M.S
********************************************************************** ASSIGNMENT FOR 12 STUDENTS ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT :JULY 2020

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Does this family umbrella support women empowerment? Write your views based on the diagram in a paragraph of about 100 words.

(Assignment prepared by ARUN LAKSHMANAN SIR)

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Even though we are at the stage of total modernisation and what not, gender equality, gender roles and discrimination remains a sensitive talk. In a conventional front, women are expected to take care of her family, serve and obey her husband, take care of her children as if these are her divine duties. Men are always considered to be at authority, the one who leads in a relationship, and this itself is a huge no-no. A relationship no matter what it is, be it a marriage, a frienship, or anything for that matter- should be based on mutual trust and respect- from the realisation that no one is inferior to the other. Unfortunately that isn't the case.

Women empowerment must start within a family. When a girl sees her mother work for her

dream, it encourages the kid to do so too. When a boy witnesses it he learns to respect dreams of other people, to view women equal to him.. It is told that a woman wears her heart on her sleeves, that she is emotionally vulnerable, so what? A human becomes strong when they embrace all their vulnerabilities.

It is important to recognize the fact that before being a wife and mother, a women is a person of her own, she has dreams and she a mind of her own. You cannot except her obey everything that our misogynic society throws at her. Afterall all human minds work the same. But, still there are women who are trapped in this unreasonable beliefe of “womanhood is motherhood”, and if by chance she is not able to acheive it she is considered to be useless.

There is nothing wrong about women being homemakers. But it is absolutely unacceptable

when she is forced throw away her own life, job and dreams for sake of being a wife. 

Women can also provide for her family, and men too can be homemakers, well we have instances too. There are also families in which both the partners are from working class. And as much as I dispise the idea of potraying women inferior, men are also subjected to the toxicity of traditional masculinity, but that is a talk of its own.

p.s. I'm not in anyway am trying to depict feminist innuendoes*.

- Swathy. M.S

   Science

BACK TO RESULT PAGE     (innuendo-an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one.

"she's always making sly innuendoes")