House wife
By roshigo58
@roshigo58 (4859)
Pune, India
December 21, 2012 8:09am CST
Some housewives think that they have lesser value in the society then that of working women.My wife is suffering from a muscular disease. But when she was normal she use to take all the household responsibilities successfully and efficiently e.g cooking, cleaning, paying the different bills, bringing the grocery,vegetables and many other things, necessary for the family. I had to go for a job full day. But i didn't have to care about anything other than my job.She is also a good teacher and used to help my son in his studies and take care of him. So i think housewives too are equally important and should not be considered less valuable than working women.What do you think?
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41 responses
@greenthumb018 (595)
• Philippines
22 Dec 12
I am not a housewife but I think that being a housewife takes a lot of work. My mother is a housewife and is great in time management and I don't know how she does all that in a day. She does all the work in the house and still have time for all of her kids (we're 7 by the way). And to top all that, she doesn't look like a very tired housewife and even have time to do her hobby and that is to paint. She's always poised and clean and beautiful. We do not have a maid then and just had one when I was in high school. I admire her a lot for taking care of us.
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@sanchita90 (22)
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22 Dec 12
Housewife is the most working women in this world. Thuogh We think some time housewife have no work value. I dont think so .My mother is a housewife cleaning to cooking shopping all job done by my mom .When my mom nt in home then we understand that what job done a housewife in a day.
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@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
22 Dec 12
Housewives should not feel that way.
Working at home or being a housewife is not just a career- it's devotion.
Imagine a housewife working 24/7, 7 days a week without any day off and no salary at all.
I am also a housewife for many years (a full time mother and housewife) but I never feel any insecurities.
Now that my kids are grown up- I look for a job and still I am a full time mother and home maker at home.
I manage my time between work, my kids and houseworks...
and I am proud of myself.
@thewonderboy (7501)
• India
22 Dec 12
Most of the men think that house hold works which are done by women are quite easy and are simple but in reality it is very difficult to handle them. We people could only understand those works only when we try to do the whole works of our home which our wife usually does.
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@neelia27 (896)
• Philippines
22 Dec 12
that is so right.. before i got married i am working and i love it because i am able to earn money on my own and buy what i want.. but now i give up my work for my family to take care of my child and my husband.. sometimes it is so frustrating that you are tied up with the chores at home and can`t go out and have limited money because you have to budget for the needs of the family.. and yet when you see you family happy that is enough reward to stay at home and continue to take care for them.. so being a stay at home or housewife is the most hardest job but the most rewarding job also.. that is my own opinion..
@savypat (20216)
• United States
21 Dec 12
SA lot of my working life, I was a Mom and I never underestimated the great benefit a housewife brought to the family, since I could not do both, and most of the time we were to poor to employ a full time housekeeper, our whole family had to do the housewife's job and even though we all pitched in we were never successful as a housewife would have been. We got by, but things would have been much better if a housewife lived with us.
@roshigo58 (4859)
• Pune, India
21 Dec 12
Thanks a lot for your frank confession and thanks for the response. Be in touch always and share.
@asweetie (1187)
• India
21 Dec 12
Hi roshigo,
Being a house wife or working wife dont make you better or worse. It is the girl inside you which makes you good or bad wife. Those girls who stay at home to look after the family do not contirbute any less to the society than the girls who work outside. Yes the girls who work has a more charming life because the house wife's work is never recognised , what they do for family.
@roshigo58 (4859)
• Pune, India
21 Dec 12
Yes i do fully agree with you. Whatever you have opined, word to word is very very correct. Let the society as a whole should follow the same like you. Really your last sentence is a bitter truth. These housewives never comes in the limelight and that is why not recognized. Thanks for the immediate response. Please be in touch and share.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
22 Dec 12
I am glad to know that you appreciate all the things that your wife do. I think that among other jobs in the world, being a housewife is the least appreciated and recognized. It is a 24/7 job and no amount of money can ever equal the work that a housewife can provide for her family.
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
22 Dec 12
Yes, housewife should even be lauded for being such. Their chores at home are endless. After washing the dishes of a meal, they will again in how many hours cook for the next meal and wash the dishes. Their chores are endless.
Well, that is if they don't have maids.
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@alberello (4752)
• Italy
21 Dec 12
Well, I think you're absolutely right.
Housewives, should not be discriminated against at all!
They have, however, the specific tasks to be completed for the same family, so it is for them, a job in every aspect.
Ok, the family home is not paid for housework that performs, yet this work is useful for everyone. When in a family, the housewife there isn't, then we complain because we have to do everything!
So I fully support your opinion that the task of the housewife is a job that should not be, absolutely discriminated !
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@Mavic123456 (21893)
• Thailand
21 Dec 12
so sweet of you to consider your wife's effort. and yes, wives have a big role in the family even if they stay at home. Actually they work more than anyone in the world. We work 8 hours a day, and after work we go home and rest, assuring that there will be hot meal for dinner. they don't have breaks like we have during lunch. They continuously working until they sleep. Hoorah for the wives. (I don't have a wife by the way) I am thinking of my mother.
@roshigo58 (4859)
• Pune, India
21 Dec 12
Thanks a lot for your open heart comment and agreeing fully with me. I am sure that you will have the same feelings with your wife like that of with mother.And she will be one of the luckiest wife. Thanks a lot for the response. Be i touch and share.
@christylynn41 (200)
• United States
21 Dec 12
Thank you for this post. I am a house wife too and I also have health problems. I do my best each day to still care for the home and the kids. I don't think it's fair that if my husband is working all day that he should have to come home and worry about such things. Alot of my women friends try and tell me that Im not really happy and that I need to get out and have a job. But I really dont want to I teach online and home school my 5 children. So I think that is enough because as I have my good days and bad days with my health having a job where I would have to go to everyday would not be suitable for me. The most my husband has to do is maybe do the grocery shopping and he does that on his days off and when Im feeling ok I try and go with him. But other than that he doesnt have to do anything unless he wants. A couple of my kids who are older now they help out a lot for me when I have my bad days.
@roshigo58 (4859)
• Pune, India
21 Dec 12
Yes you are very right. whatever the duties of a house wife you are performing clearly. Everything will be fine soon, have faith on God and he will take care of you. Always take care of your health and do only such things which health permits you to do. Good luck to you for the future and thanks for the response.
@artemeis (4194)
• China
23 Dec 12
Confucius once said: "The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him. But out of his side to be equal to him."
People like you give hope to the women in your country which have been very suppressed and undermined to this very day. I have to say that good education and sense of integrity does contribute a lot here.
I am sorry to hear about your wife's sufferings and wish that there will be an effective cure for such a dreadful condition. I wish that there could be something more the people of today can do to remove unhealthy traditions and condescending customs. Women are flesh and blood humans and have feelings, too.
Today, women (if I may add) are assuming more responsibilities since joining the workforce to bring extra money into the household and more importantly financial stability. Imagine yourself, exhausted after a day at work and leaving the cares of home to your wife - how much more do you think working wives have when they come home and could not afford the luxury of resting when the domestic responsibilities beckon.
One can just do so much and I hope all the men reading this will try to appreciate and help out at home.
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
23 Dec 12
Any man who thinks the role of the homemaker is not important should trade places with her for a week. There should be at least 3 children in the family, one is sick, one is struggling with at least one subject, and the other one plays at least 2 sports, requiting that a parent show up with snacks..
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
31 Jan 13
What I think is that you are absolutely right. Everyone has their own special gifts and talents. Not everyone can manage a household well and manage other responsibilities as well. Lots of housewives are taken for granted, but if someone had to be hired to take their place it would be very expensive.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
23 Dec 12
While being a housewife (as I am) is a totally different role to hold in your life, I don't think that it is a role that has any less value. You see, the thing that a lot of people don't realize about those women that choose to stay at home with their children and to keep the house is that even though we are not paid for the work that we are doing, we are on duty twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and fifty-two weeks a year. It has fully been over ten years since I've had a day off.
@SamShima (71)
• Nigeria
8 Feb 13
Quite a good housewife. People have different characters. It depends on habit, one could be pomposity while another could be humility. Housewife is a profession, let them know.