I’ve been noticing the change in people’s mindsets about working women. People (mostly men) are now accepting the fact that if women can work, they will work. This is a positive change that was required. But as every beautiful thing has a spot on it, every positive change has its own draw backs. I am not saying that there is any draw back in accepting that women can work, but people find some or the other way to make it difficult for women to work. This sounds really feminist but it is the truth and experiencing this truth makes you add yourself into the feminist group. My experience is the proof of my objection. So the scene is I am a working woman and I am working since 20 years.

I work because it gives me happiness. I take English coaching and do storytelling and many such things. I used to work really hard and invest a lot of time in my working. So this one friend of mine noticed that I am working really hard and asked me, “Being a housewife you work so hard, are you having any financial problems?” I was like wait! I can only work hard if my financial position is not good, according to that person. How convincing! Why these people cannot understand that women work because they want to, that does not necessarily mean that they are in some problem.

Also there is this misconception that if women work for some social cause or are associated with some NGO, they belong to a very high profiled family because they are not working for money. If they work for money then definitely they are in some trouble because they does not require money of their own. That’s their husbands/father’s job, of course. These people really need to come out of their old and irrelevant boxes of ideologies and explore the new growing world and respect the fact that “IF WOMEN WANT TO WORK, THEY SHOULD AND THEY WILL WORK.”