Originally posted by: zehreeli.kheer
No offense but aren't you guys kind of looking down on housewives?😆
You know, It has been a matter of conflict for me for a really long time. For a long time "it's her choice after all " was what I used to follow. But lately I pay more attention to factors that lead to women into making that choice. And no offense but I think limiting one's self to household work and children means waste of lots of opportunity and potential. Children don't need mother 24*7 either.
I read one story in sudha Murthy's book wise and otherwise, where she narrated stories of two different women. One was her college friend, a housewife, who was full of self doubt and lacked confidence despite having a post graduate degree and other lady was a woman she met in a bus- who learned how to grow vegetables and started some backyard farming and her husband started asking for her opinions for his own farm.
Dealing with world and strangers gives a confidence and experience that staying at home can never bring on the table. Being a housewife does not challenge one enough to push boundaries, that's what I feel.
It's a choice at the end of the day, but I personally don't understand why someone would go back to a small pond again after swimming in the ocean.