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Gayatri Somvanshi
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Okay so we always hear all those neighborhood aunties always saying that even if you become successful in your career still a woman has to handle the sole responsibility of handling a household. We all know how time and time again we are always told that our basic job is to look after our home.
It’s not really ironic to hear these demands like how a woman should change her lifestyle including her first name when she is married but after all if our own biological parents treat us an outsider why won’t the real outsiders won’t have the audacity to speak and treat us like that?
As we all know according to the society women should always prioritise the wellness of the family first be it her maternal or husband’s home.Before marriage she is always expected to to think about her parents and their so called pride while her parents only think about society and relatives that are different. After marriage her half time goes on pleasing her in-laws and husband and remaining half for children and grandchildren. So in a way an ideal woman just lives her life for everyone except for herself. Women who sacrifice everything as they show in TV bahus is always labelled as an ideal match.
As we all know after marriage a woman is always an object who is brought and in fact it’s her privilege that she is married into their family and now that they are gonna provide for her so she has to comply with them. Since she is given by her family to them the first thing they need to do is label her as theirs so her surname and even first name in some cases is changed. So now she is officially theirs .
Even though today women do fight for their rights and almost have stopped these patiarchal norms still there are these things needed to be changed.