Should
women’s roles be limited in the kitchen?
Ever since 1994 which was
the year which the apartheid ended, women’s roles in our country changed. As we
all know, before that it was required that women were not allowed to have jobs
and earn a salary for themselves, all they were required to do was to stay at
home and become housewives and take care of household works like, cooking,
cleaning and taking care of the kids.
Well all that has changed now, these days
women are allowed to have jobs and earn salaries for themselves and their
families, some women are leaders in the Country and some are owners of big
properties. Due to this some men think that women shouldn’t have jobs, that
they should stay at home just like the old times, many men feel threatened by
women who work in higher positions than them. Men believe that they should be
the ones who go out to work for their families while their wives stay home and
become housewives. So should women’s roles be limited in the kitchen?
I disagree with the fact
that women’s roles should be limited in the kitchen. As we all know that this
is the 21’st century and things have changed. Certain rights have been
developed for women ever since the apartheid ended. Rights like, the right to
equality and freedom. So women and men should have equal rights at all times,
no one should think that they are better than the other. Women are free to do
whatever they want to do as long as they are not breaking the law, they are
allowed to find jobs and provide for their families as well. So this issue of
men being the only species to work should grow out of individuals because the
old is gone and the new has come. Women should indeed be able to serve in equal
rights as men; the whole thing of men being the only severs is completely
sexist. Women can do anything men can do, if a woman wants to serve her
country, who are you to judge or even stop her from doing it.
Some men are just very
selfish, they don’t want women to jobs because they want to be the ones who
rule in the family, the ones who earn salaries so that their wives can depend
on them. Yes men are the leaders in the family, even the Bible states that, but
that does not mean that they should overdo it. Yes men are stronger than women,
but there are women who are stronger than men, and that doesn’t mean that women
should be pushed away because of their sex. That is like judging someone by the
colour of their skin and that is very wrong.
After viewing all the aspects
of weather women’s roles should be limited in the kitchen, Mrs Mashishi who is
a dentist was interviewed just to hear her side of the story and weather she
agrees or disagree with this fact, and this is what she said; “Men and women
are equal, so why do men have different rights? Women have the right to choose,
so why don’t they have that option? Yes I know that back in the old days women
stayed at home and cooked, cleaned, and took care of the children; but it is
obvious that our world is much more evolved than it was back then. Yes men are
the stronger sex, but if women want to serve their country they should at least
have the option”.
After hearing Mrs Mashishi’s
side of the story Mr Modise who is the owner of Incroyable Guesthouse in
Midrand was also interviewed just to hear the story from a male perspective and
this is what he said; “yes I think women’s roles should be limited in the
kitchen because ever since women got their right to be equal as men and to
freedom, they started to loose respect for their husbands in their homes
because they felt that they rule their homes as well just like men since they
both earn a salary for the family. So it was better in the olden days when
women stayed at home and focused on households activities”. After hearing Mr
Modise’s side of the story I realised that not all people disagree with this ,
some agree that women’s roles should be limited in the kitchen especially men.
So not all people have the
same perspective about women, everyone has their own judgements, but with the
research that has been made about women’s roles being limited in the kitchen a majority
of people seem to disagree with this due to the rights of women and the new
evolved world.
References
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/main/stayinThekitchen
