Better late than never

Today a woman is a wife, a mother, an entrepreneur, a working lady. They also have the right to be happy and to have some extra time to enjoy their lives. They have their desires for some time alone, a girl’s night out. Having her partner do his share of the cooking, cleaning and the laundry is not a selfish need it’s a basic human need. Children learn from what they see in house, they learn from their parent’s behavior. If children hear their fathers give lip service to equality for women, but then see that their dads can’t be bothered to do a load of laundry as a regular part of their household contribution because they view it as “woman’s work” then how can a boy or girl’s consciousness ever be changed? Our sons and daughters need to see their fathers as good role models and our daughters must not think that by becoming a mother—a caretaker— she would become a second-class citizen, whether she opted to stay home or work outside the home for pay. I want my daughter who is growing up knowing that her dad does the laundry, cooks and occasionally goes food shopping. To her, it should be a normal gender behavior. It would be odd if she ended up with a man who didn’t share her dad’s behavior, and, in fact, I believe she would reject such a man because it wouldn’t feel right to her.
I think that’s wonderful. The support for equality and care-taking needs to start at home–the best place to effect change. On an average day, women spent more than twice as much time preparing food and drink and doing interior cleaning, and four times as much time doing laundry as did men. Women Are Still Doing Most of the Housework. This ad from Ariel showing how women deal with the "second shift" — working all day and coming home to even more household chores is very inspiring. In the two-minute ad, a father visits his grown up daughter and her family and watches her — after a day at work — juggle with work calls and dinner preparations and her son's stained shirt.
Meanwhile, her husband watches TV. "I am so proud. And I am so sorry," her father says in a voiceover. "Sorry that you have to do all this alone. Sorry that I never stopped you while you were playing house. I never told you it's not your job alone, but your husband's too. But how could I say it when I never helped your mom either?"
Its a must watch advertisement for all the men who should come forward to help with #ShareTheLoad. This would ensure many happy households.

 “I am joining the Ariel #ShareTheLoad campaign at BlogAdda and blogging about the prejudice related to household chores being passed on to the next generation.”