A recent research revealed amazing findings that women end up doing 6 years of housework in their entire lifetime as compared to their male counterparts. Here are some astonishing facts about women! They spend 5 years of their life in cooking, 4 years in shopping and 7 years in taking care of their children.
From cooking to cleaning, endless tasks keep the homemakers on their toes. Be it doing dishes or wiping vessels or tutoring the tiny tots, weary women work their way through the day. Being a homemaker is a full-time job, is claimed by all women. To cite an example, the lady doctor whom I had interviewed for my thesis had taken a long sabbatical from her medical career to look after her young ones and foster their all round development in a home environment. Though it was a temporary bye-bye to treating patients and shooting off prescriptions, she expressed immense joy in her motherhood.
Women are far more active than their male counterparts and can multitask well. They don’t realize how much they do in their daily activities, says Claudio Bellen, Sure brand manager. Though men might boast of being better jugglers and jesters, I doubt whether they can beat a woman at multitasking – chopping onions, talking on the phone and yelling at her three year old son for breaking the beautiful antique vase. Quite an active life!
In their time surveys, National Sample Survey Organization found that about two out of every three Indian women, in their prime working years were engaged in unpaid housework. Over sixty per cent said they did so because there was no one else to help them out with household chores.
Working women still end up doing lion’s share of the housework. At times in households, a lone woman has to bear the burden of cooking in a big family of five brothers. Chances are that female breadwinners might face work-family conflict as household duties clash with job roles and demands.
Is it that women are more carved out for childrearing and inclined to be caregivers? Rather than being biologically predisposed to handle such tasks, it is more of social conditioning that shapes such attitudes. Girls learn at a young age that household duties have to be shouldered by them, while boys play ball or tinker with the remote for videogames.
