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When it is about career women either leaves it due to her responsibilities or she easily decides to give up her career as she don’t want to fight for it. Hardly a few women fights for their career.
Society force women to get married and then have a child and also the child’s responsibility is given to her due to which she is pushed to leave her career and be a good wife and mother. In laws shows her that it is the best option for her family to give up her career and focus on building relationships in family. Why women are expected to leave their career after marriage? Why women has to choose between their career and family? Why men don’t have any kind of pressure of leaving their jobs after marriage? No woman should have to give up her job or become a dependant just because it is the most perfect option for everyone involved in family. She has her own choice whether she wants to continue her career or not. Nobody can force her. If at the end of the day women has to leave her career then why she has educated. Just for getting a good husband and raise her child. A woman should learn to resist and not pressurised herself to give up her career due to someone else.
We can have all the policies and strategies for gender enrichment. We can focus on getting girls into schools and getting them jobs but it all fails if a woman gives up on her career after a certain point due to her family. Women should think about it.