How do these women do it? How do they balance home, family, work, dealing with the male gender in general? Some of them wake up early in the morning to cook for their whole family, as well as pack a lunch box. Then if they are working women, they rush off to work. They come back home later and once again cook and generally take care of the household making sure it runs smoothly. Is it wired into their DNA? I'm sure if some of them knew what was awaiting them later in life, they may have chosen to have never left the safety of their mother's womb!
Life in India or perhaps in many developing nations in very challenging. Women have to balance a myriad of roles ranging from wife to career woman. Or in short a superwoman who somehow manages to perform all her tasks with ease and charm, not chipping a nail in the process. Women are expected to bring home the money and make chapatis at the same time. And yes, they are expected to look beautiful and elegant while performing inelegant tasks.
Certain indian women who have complete boors for husbands should be given an award for long-suffering. Men who go off to work and treat their wives like maid- servants. Then of course women have to handle the daily leering glances of men, sometimes even on an hourly basis.
How do they do it? Perhaps it's simply a matter of rising to occasion and seeing what the situation demands. Maybe it's been programmed into their minds when they were growing up. Do they love what they're doing? Perhaps they do, or they grow into loving it. I'm not writing all this to rant and rave at men. I'm writing this so that all of us can show appreciation to the women in our lives: mother, daughter, mother-in-law and others. For all that they do, and for the sacrifices they have made.
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