Not just a housewife!

Before I say anything, lets teleport ourselves to eavesdrop on a couple of conversations; which will hopefully get the point across the table:

Scene 1:

Two newly met male colleagues discussing about their families.

Person1: “Hey, is your wife working or not?”.

Person2: “Naah, she doesn’t work. She stays at home.”

Oh hell, not working! What do you think she is doing round at clock at home? Who magically cleans the dishes spotless, puts the baby to sleep, irons your clothes, prepares steaming food waiting on the table when you go back from your work?

Why does working only have to be stepping outside the four walls of the home? If you are 8 hour leased to your company, she is working out as a 24*7 employee though within the home.

Scene 2:

Two ladies meet after a long time at a restaurant post college. Both of them talk for hours telling each other about their lives and careers. One of them explains her situation to the other: “I am good for nothing. After all I am just a housewife”

Naah lady! Where is the self confidence? Just a housewife? Just really?? You are doing a piece of work that majority of the population on the face of earth will be incapable of even reaching near to. Your mundane set of jobs of getting the kids to study, dropping them off at the school spot on time, getting wimpy faces to eat at the dining table, arguing with the sabzi wala, and again picking those naughty one back, and resolving the mayhem at home will be no less than a herculean feat to others. Just ask your hubby to do it for a day and then measure where you stand!

So if they arent paid, does that mean they dont work?

Let me start off by rolling the ball with the definition of GDP; no need to brush up standard Xth economics as Wikipedia is always at our rescue. Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time.

What about the services that a hitherto called housewife renders within the premises of her home? Believe me if you count in the work required in a day long running behind a scuttling 2 year old only, the GDP would be shooting to trebles in seconds. Dread the day when housewives (or should I call them indoor engineers) start to demand their share of salaries!

Even if the non feminist economists did not consider it, there is nothing stopping us from recognizing the effort. More than that, the ladies out there should themselves realize the importance of their own work @ home. After all they are the home makers and home is what maketh a man! Very frankly I would say, the precious(yet intangible) contribution that they make to the economy will hugely belittle what the bread earners of their families bring about.