Question- Give any one example that shows how women’s work is ignored?

Answer -

Example
The doctor asked, “Do you have many children?”
The man replied that God didn’t do me any good. Out of my fifteen born children, only nine are alive.

Does your wife work?
No, she stays at home.

Okay! Then she’ll have her day. How does she spend?
She wakes up at four o’clock in the morning, goes to fetch water and wood, lights a fire and prepares breakfast. After this, she goes to the bank of the river and does the laundry. After this, she goes to the town and brings our necessities from the market. After that she cooks the lunch.

You come home in the afternoon?
No, no! She brings the food to the farm - about three kilometres from the house.

And after that?
Yes, she takes care of the chickens and pigs after that and obviously she takes care of the kids all day long ... then she cooks the dinner and the dinner is ready till I come home.

Does she go to sleep after dinner?
No. After having dinner, I go to sleep. She is busy with all the household chores till about nine o’clock in the night.

Yes, but just now you said that your wife does not do any work?

Yes, where does she work? I said no, that she does not work, she just stays at home.
The story mentioned above tells how all the work of women goes unnoticed and how no cognizance of that work is taken. At the same time, this story also clarifies how all the work done by women inside the house is left out of the scope of economic calculation.

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