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Family Relationship of Working WomenBY: swadesin | Category: Relationships | Post Date: 2009-05-24
A woman is the builder and moulders of nation's destiny. Though delicate and soft as a lily she has a heart far stronger and bolder than man-she is the supreme inspiration for man's onward march, an embodiment of love, pity and compassion ….- - R.Tagore For most of human history, work and the rest of life were completely integrated. With the industrial revolution, the -work-place- moved out of the family, home and community-both literally and metaphorically. The work place became men's domain; so its organization conformed to their needs and interests. Women came to bear the responsibility for supporting the health and productivity of men in the workplace by domestic washing and cleaning; raising children; and supporting the community through paid work. Increasingly, home and community subsidized the workplace and the -privileging of economy over life- became institutionalized. Knowledge on women has no longer remained as a mere study of the status of women; it has stretched its scope and expanded its disciplinary boundaries in the age of information revolution. The past two decades have demonstrated the growing strength of the global women's movement in advocating issues of women's equality and empowerment. The concern is to know about the status dynamics and role conflict in the family life of career women in the age of information revolution. Some men are also of the opinion that highly educated and qualified women do not make good and homely wives. Again there are also plenty of men, who wanted the total package: Brains, Looks, Mommy Potential and Earning Potential. Men and Women both want partners who will go out into the world every day, as a breadwinner or a homemaker, earn a good grade and still have something to give to the relationship. Very few men are there who still are of the opinion that their wives must not be working but along with that there are a huge number of men who are of the opinion that their wives should work and even their parents are supporting the matter that their daughter-in-law should be professional. Those who oppose marrying a woman with a career believe that they may run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. Recent studies have found professional women are more likely to get divorced, more likely to cheat, less likely to have children and if they do have kids, they are more likely to be unhappy about it. The more successful she is the more likely she is to grow dissatisfied with you. A recent study in Social Forces, a research journal, found that women-even those with a -feminist- outlook-are happier when their husband is the primary breadwinner. Traditionally men have tended to do -market- or paid work outside the home and women have tended to do -non-market- or household work, including raising children. All of the work must get done by somebody, and this pairing, regardless of who is in the home and who is outside the home, accomplishes that goal. In recent years people have been spending less time with their families because of information and work overload. Work takes more time and even when a family member is physically present, work is intrusive, preoccupying and unpredictable. Pressures from an increasingly competitive work environment combined with lack of support for family responsibilities are leading to considerable conflicts and stresses for workers trying to -juggle- work with family responsibilities. It is sometimes assumed that in developing countries family responsibilities are not really a problem since workers can appeal to traditional family solidarity and find some relative who can help look after dependents. The major challenge for women is how to arrange the rest of their roles when they take on family care giving, and what we've found nearly always happens is the women's own personal lives are what is compromised. They tend to add the family care giving roles to all the other roles they fill, what they forgo is their own exercise, their leisure time, their personal time. Some working women give up even more, who end up quitting their jobs to care for a sick parent can wind up out of the workforce for good, and that affects their long-term health coverage and retirement benefits. Family relationships can constitute a major handicap in the labour market particularly when society is organized such that conflict is high between the demands of work and the demands of family. And since women often continue to shoulder the bulk of family responsibilities, the stresses and the disadvantages in the labour market tend to affect them more than men. But as in the case of every social change, there is a lag between actions and attitudes. While people may be willing to accept the idea of career women, they are not willing to excuse them from their duties as career moms. The attitude towards working women seems to be that while people have no objection to availing of their talents and abilities outside the home; women are not allowed to compromise on home life. And if they do, they should be made to feel the error of their ways. In the first place, the term 'working mother' is a misnomer as mothers are working round the clock even if they don't go to an office. Being a working mother is not the easiest job in the world. Thus, in this globalized world the empowered women are those who enjoy bodily integrity, has positive images of her own worth and dignity, has equitable control and influence over household and public resources and live in an enabling environment in which she can do and engage in collective effort for making and maintaining her family relationships to run in a smooth and positive manner. Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: I am a research scholar,interested in the gender issues and basically the real life and situation of the women force. Additional Articles: * Astronomy For Dummies - Astronomy For Beginners * Water –The 21st century fuel - Can a car run on water? * Improve popularity of an article. Increase traffic for your article. * Why kids argue alot. Reasons of fight among children and parents * Do websites promising to make you money really work? Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? 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