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  • Shubhangini Shaktawat
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    Women and Choice of Employment
    Over the years, as and how women working have been normalized, we have all seen women working in the most versatile jobs and places; from teaching students, to coaching sportsmen and from fighting for the rights of underprivileged to rendering justice to the needy and deserving. We have seen it all. Then why has the society limited its vision of women working only in educational fields? If someone wants to work, why is she given an option only to either teach or nurse? In the educational and medical field, no doubt teachers and nurses are very essential, yet they are always dominated over by doctors and institutional heads, that are usually male. Why is there a stereotypical thinking that women ‘need’ to be overpowered by men at home and outside?
    Not only this, but also women are thought to be fragile, delicate and weak. This is why they are encouraged to take up jobs in the teaching or nursing area, if at all. Contrary to this, we must now stop worshipping such stereotypes and the ‘male-ego.’ A doctor is a doctor, a cop is a cop, a scientist is a scientist, a teacher is a teacher, a nurse is a nurse, a footballer is a footballer, no matter male or female. In the United States, women are usually seen in the occupations of kindergarten teachers, dentists, childcare workers, secretaries and administrative assistants, dieticians, nutritionists, hairstylists, cosmetologists, etc. On the other hand, Indian women are mostly known to have worked in fields like politics, entertainment industry, cultivation, labor, writing, in the services, law, journalism, sports, cabin crew, Human Resources related jobs, Government jobs, etc. Breaking stereotypes, women have also worked as drivers, auto-rickshaw drivers, mechanics, etc. that are supposedly working areas of men.
    The point here is, women have and shall remain to work and excel in all different fields like Oprah Winfrey, Phoolan Devi, P. V. Sindhu, Kalpana Chawla, Apurvi Chandela, Kiran Bedi, Kamala Harris, Marilyn Monroe, Brenda Howard, Elizabeth Blackwell, Ayesha Aziz and numerous other unnamed heroes. We cannot limit them to participate or succeed only in teaching or nursing related jobs. Women shall make their own choice to choose their field of employment as it is their constitutional right. Nobody can curb their rights and keep it from them, not even the society. It is time we developed as an open-minded and stereotype-free society and let women live their dreams and make their nations proud.
    A woman myself,
    Shubhangini Shaktawat

    Shumaila Siddiqui
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    Woman are now capable of doing everything And choosing everything. It’s only about the perspective and the way the woman has grown up to take up the employment. People have made some boundaries for woman that they are only good at nursing, teaching basically a work which is more of a caretaker. Society has assumed a lot of perceptions towards women that they can’t do paperwork or handling business or becoming CEO or on a larger perspective to do an army job or to be pilots ,etc.
    I think women not taking up challenging employment as their career is because of several agenda proposed by our society. Pay disparity, gender baseness and Patriarchal based employments are some reasons for women to step back from their dream job.
    According to the reports of the NSSO data (2011-12) most of the women willingly choose employment in the primary sector such as agriculture and farm work. In a manufacturing sector women are seen to be employed in less paid, normal,work from home or without pay work in a enterprise held by family run. Looking at the tertiary sector ,women are found in large numbers in retail trade, education-based work and domestic household work with salary. Above sectors give women the convenience to make their unpaid and looking after responsibilities with their paid work.
    The scenario only suggests that. Women are forced to take employment below their skills and talent due to the undue demands and pressures society puts them into. There need to be more encouragement and women taking up varied employments to set an example for other women’s.
    Women are a tribe of strong, powerful and opinionated creatures who are born to shine and not to shrink their skills just for the pity reasons.
    Women stand up for the right and wrong and make your own success journey path.

    anshika agarwal
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    In today’s era when women are walking side by side to men, there are still some places where choice of employment occurs. Why choice of employment occurs with women only?
    Women are raising bars for men in every field. They are not less than men in anything but still women are not fully employed. Women are still asked that whether they will work or not after their marriage. Some women are even forced by the in-laws to leave their job after their marriage and children. They are flooded with a lot of responsibilities. Women who don’t want to fight for their right leave their job and work for their house like a maid. Even if some women choose their career over their family they are called selfish by the society. Some women don’t want to work because they still believes that women’s job is doing household chores and taking care of their children. They are leaving their own opportunities. Women who work are even paid less due to which society considers their earnings as negligible. Instead of blaming women for every fault, society should try to increase women employment. It should always be on women whether she wants to work or not. It’s her life let her decide. Don’t pressurize them.
    With the increasing employment rate in women there is also a need to change society’s thinking towards working women. So, that other non-working women can get motivated through them and they also start working.

    038 deepika Singh
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    Right to choose is a human right and every individual should have it. Then why are women exempted from it? Many women across different parts of the world does not have the choice of pursuing their career. They do not have to choice to fulfill their life long dreams. They are stripped away from education and entitled to someone other man once they reach a certain age. Men are put with unlimited power in their hands to choose what they think is best for their wives, daughters, mothers or sisters. Our patriarchal society forces our women to keep their work limited to the household chores and serve their family. As a women enter a workplace they are already entering an unequal landscape that has been traditionally believed to be ruled by men. There is prejudice treatment against them at the time of hiring. They are judged on the basis of their marital status. They are even paid much less than men despite being on the same position and doing the same kind of job. Pay raise or training opportunities are some other issues faced by women at work. Problems like sexual harassment have become so common at workplaces that often women tend to ignore such treatments and do not report it due to the lack of support. They are often denied promotions being labelled as ‘women’- inefficient than men. All these practices preaches the idea of a women limited to being a mere ‘housewife’ serving her family.

    In each and every aspect of life, all a woman does is sacrifice and compromise. Sacrifice their education, dreams, jobs and body. And somehow all this have been so normalized that we do not even pay much heed to it. We raise the issue of gender equality, gender stereotypes, sexism, feminism, patriarchy, but we fail to acknowledge the root cause behind all such matters. The right to choose. A woman has the right to choose the best for herself, whether she wants to step outside and work or she wants to stay inside her house and work and I believe that no one should intervene in it.

    Afshan Iqbal
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    As we see, the times have changed and it’s not just a man’s world anymore. Women are making an impact in every field and they are leading in every way. There is no place where we find women any less than men. So, it’s very important to give them the well-deserved positions that society has always ignored just because of their gender. Women were always supposed to work at home and the fact that women are working outside homes is still not digested by society. Women have the right to choose whatever they think is best for them. It is a woman’s right to choose whatever she wants. Nobody should tell a woman to do what they think is best for her. Whether it’s about what college she will pursue her studies or it’s about the profession she chooses for herself. It’s her choice. It’s her choice if she wants to do a job and it’s her choice if she wants to be a homemaker. When a woman is seen doing a job, the one question that pops up in everyone’s mind is “How will she manage?”. People start assuming that a working woman won’t be able to manage her personal and professional life and will be bad in either of them. People start judging her and make a prior conception that she is a bad wife/mother/daughter-in-law/employee etc. Women also may face career problems because of stereotypes that they are more family-oriented and less committed to their careers. Nobody has the right to judge a woman on a choice she made for herself. Choosing is a basic right for everyone and it cannot be denied to women. We all should protect and promote freedom of choice. If a woman chooses to be employed, we all should respect and support her decision, and when she doesn’t want to do a job and become a homemaker instead, that should be respected and supported. Freedom to choose is everything.

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