The Multitasking Woman - #ChooseToChallenge
The theme for International Women’s Day 2021 is #ChooseToChallenge and I would like to challenge the concept of the multitasking woman, as the image below shows. No, the multitasking woman is not a myth, she is a reality that exists in all our lives. We are her. On Women’s Day we send each other encouraging messages of love and kindness. A dear friend, Tarannum Ara , posted a picture of a multitasking woman on one of her social media platforms and said: “Let’s stop glorifying the everyday struggle of women on Women’s Day. We do not have a choice to opt out of these responsibilities unlike men. It’s exhausting to be a woman in the artwork here”. This rings very true. As women we are proud of all that we can do and accomplish but we fail to acknowledge or do not want to accept the toll this takes on us – because we always put others before us (or the society demands and expects this from us). Women are forced to play too many roles at home, such as the housemaid, the mother, the...