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Back in 2019, Ariel washing powder company ran a very interesting ad campaign called #ShareTheLoad , an amazing video of which we have shared below. It highlighted a huge problem in the social upbringing system of Indian families where guys are pampered like Prince where as Girls are trained to take care of all household chores.
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THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM IN INDIA. MIDDLE CLASS AND ABOVE HOUSEHOLD LADIES CAN’T SURVIVE WITHOUT MAIDS. Especially when INDIAN WIVES are also into a demanding jobs like their husbands. Almost every Indian girl handles two jobs, one at workplace and one at home. Sadly the one at home comes with no weekend offs. A few months ago a guest blogger wrote a very good article on our website on the topic Why Marry NRI Guys..? -NRIForShaadi.com
Above article listed 10s of comparative benefits of marrying a NRI guy for an Indian Girl, (checkout our favourite NRI Matrimony App NRIForShaadi.com). One of those reasons and the most significant one was that NRI guys are well trained in household chores including cleaning, washing, dish cleaning, hoovering, bathroom general cleaning etc as there is no MAID system abroad. Unlike most guys in India, who can’t even make tea or omlette or even maggie, who need everything in their hands, who don’t pickup their used dishes from the table, who don’t change bedsheets or put clothes in washing machines, who don’t vaccum or mop the floor, who don’t even know where their towels and socks are kept, NRI guys have learned to do all of this and much more to survive at abroad, including cooking lots of Indian and non-indian cuisine dishes. In NRI life, both husband and wives share household chores equally, even including changing the nappies of the baby and taking turns in night to take care of toddler babies. It is very very rare to see any Indian guy helping that much in India. For most of the Indian guys in India, their wives are housemaids and they themselves are “Raja Babu” of the house, and so wives end up needing support of actual maids to manage the house.
However, due to lockdown, since no maids can come, Indian wives’ lives in India has become so stressful. There is no concept of flexible hours working in India hence office working wives don’t get flexible hours. Unlike abroad, women in India, can’t demand childcare support from govt or employers. In UK, since the kids are stuck at home and not going to the schools, hence kids need to be taken care of at home full time. So husband and wives alternate days between them to do office work and take care of kids, without getting their salary deducted as employers have to support this phase as per Govt directive. Some of them alternate between first half and second half of the working day to take care of kids stuck at home. There is no such support in India and hence Indian women’s life has become a bit like HELL in terms of work and responsibilities load on them and many are falling sick due to stress. Stress also affects the immune system badly and hence makes them susceptible to more sickness compared to Indian men. Don’t Panic, here is how to BOOST your immune system to BEAT colds, flu and coronavirus 🙂
Article from Guest Author: Neha
First Published on: 03-May-2020 at NRIApps.com
