Earning Some Respect

Rishi has landed his first paying job! His drawing teacher asked him to assist her for a month in return for a salary. But given his schedule, I doubt if he can take it up. He's very excited, nevertheless.

Razia is upset that whenever she talks about her workload, all her husband can say is that she should quit working and stay at home. Men have long got used to undermining their wives' efforts as inferior to their own. Women brave guilt, internal and external pressures both at workplace and home, they take pride in being good and responsible workers, they are respected and loved at their workplace and to dismiss all of it with statements like "Oh, what are you going to achieve anyway, you are not serious about your work!", "I earn more than enough for us, your salary can't even cover this and that...", "You don't have to pretend that you are working to help me or anything. You can sit at home from this very second for all I care!" is so insensitive, disheartening and smacks of ego. Just because a woman is the first one to care for a sick child or she puts her family ahead of all her plans? It's Mr. Kramers everywhere.