House husbands

With the recent experiences that I had with some career-oriented, new-generation, at-par-with-men kind of females, I thought of a new term – House husbands. If this term is not already patented, I would like to file one for it. Not that I am being sexist or mocking the so-called “aaj ki nari”. I feel that it is very essential that society starts accepting this idea. In today’s scenario, the most affected are the children, who do not get proper attention from either of their parents.

So far, men were considered to be responsible for earning money and upbringing of the children. But when mothers also tend to become career-oriented and run after their professional achievements, upbringing of children gets adversely affected. Also, one can read a number of articles on loss of fertility in career-oriented women. This is quite natural, the women who bear the burden of lot of stress and tensions of office work, cannot cope up with added responsibility of having babies. It has so happened that the most basic responsibility of woman has now become an extra-curricular activity. Though I might sound a bit more critical towards women who give more importance to their work than their personal life, but this should roughly depict the problem that we are facing. If this trend continues then in a long run, I see western culture invading our cultural values. For example, children are asked to leave home as soon as they are 18 or 20 years.

Instead, I have got a better idea. In couples, where the female partners are more capable as compared to their husbands, husbands should assume the role of house-husbands. There is no harm in doing this. In essence, children should be getting proper care from either of their parents. Nowadays, anyways house chores are done by maids and cooks. So men will just have to be home managers. The only hurdle is the social acceptance and the traditional saying “Men are superior to women”. However, I still feel that this would work out fine. Especially, if successful women start having such a criteria while selecting an appropriate groom. I am sure they would find someone suiting their requirements.