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Today
"Its Life" the sunday edition of times of india has
a very nice article on Feminism.
With Womens Day, approaching on 8th March, i was amused to read
various views on equality among men and women. Later i went
shopping and forgot all about it. At
lunch, an incident occurred that brought my thoughts back to
the article. My husband
offlate, has started washing his plate after lunch on Sundays
as i do mine. Being from a family where i have seen my father
and brother help in the house, it is just a way of living for
me. Today while we were having lunch, his mother(my MIL) tells
him to not wash the plate and leave it.
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She adds
she will wash it, as she washes his father's plate too!
When my husband says its not a big deal, she insists saying-she
does not like it when he washes his plate. (Ofcourse i,his
wife should be washing his plate but knowing i have allergies
on my palm she cannot tell me so directly. )
Mother and
son debate for a few seconds and later even as my husband
proceeds to wash his plate. I smile, as my thoughts rush
to jerry pinto's paragraph in the Times wherein one of
the lines state-the day parents shall start saving equal
money for education of sons and daughters alike.....
This is the reality of our
society. A so called modern mother in law who wears western
clothes and goes to a gym daily and is so enamored by
USA living, does not like her son washing his one plate.
This is our society in true form.
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Yes, our society
is somewhat better off than what it was 20 yrs back but we have
a long way to go before we speak of equality among men and women.
I wish to see feminism in its true
form someday in our daily lives, for thats when we will know
it has arrived. I only hope, that day is brought about by the
women of my generation who rear their sons and daughters on
an equal footing.
Contributed
By: Shamontika Guha
shamontika@gmail.com
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