A Common Enough Story
May 14th, 2010
The last maid who worked at our house - her husband abandoned her, while she was pregnant with her first child. Then, when she stopped working at our place, we got a young woman with two children under 5; she was friendly but feisty - she bargained hard and laid down a strict list of tasks that she would do and not do. She worked with us for a month, after which she had to stop. Because, her husband didn’t like her working; it injured his prestige, you see. If you think you are the boss, you work and support the family, I’m not going to contribute anything, he whined. And that was that - she had to stop. In the interests of maintaining some peace at home.
Read the rest of my new post, over at Women’s Web.
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This happens every day in poor families. The husband want their wives to work so as to arrange money for his daily liquor quota.
It’s a great post, Apu.
Just read the post at your other website. Fantastic. And equally depressing, to see women around the world suffering because the other half refuses to take up his share of responsibility. Or if he does, then he suppresses her and treats her like a piece of dirt. Either way, its still a man’s world.
Btw, loved your womens web site.. awesome collection of posts.. will keep an eye and ear open for more on that front
Cheers..
Thanks all, for your comments, and Pal, for the appreciation on Women’s Web as well.