From Marital Obligations To Childcare, Twitter User Lists Reasons Why Women Leave Workforce. It Stinks Of Patriarchy!
This is thought-provoking!
Life is unfair to women. Women have biological restrictions and marital and professional choices and at the end of the day, it all becomes about their priorities. A Twitter thread deeply talks about how gradually women opt out of their professional careers and make other choices in life. The thread highlights how slowly we start seeing fewer working women around and further goes on to talk about the changes that take in a woman’s life as compared to that of men. The thread makes you think!
This Twitter thread first draws our attention by stressing how there is a comparatively lesser ratio of working women and it is felt in workspaces. There are fewer female faces and some judgemental colleagues who only know how to make assumptions about your work based on your dressing sense.
At some point, as a working woman, you start seeing other women disappear.
It begins slowly. You are on a Zoom call and you are the only female face.
You are in a meeting room and someone presumes you are not good at what you do because you are so ‘well-dressed’.
— Ayushi Mona Singh (@TheMonaFactor) January 2, 2024
The Twitter thread further discusses the choices women make once they start growing old. The user highlights how most women start choosing different walks of life instead of having the sole option of progressing in their careers like men. Some women get married to NRI guys or men in general and start moving as their husband’s job. Other women take maternity leave and eventually decide to give up on their careers because it’s too much pressure.
Gradually mediocre boys you know become guest speakers at your alma mater. Men who are wayyy junior to you become team leaders on no better grounds than their own deluded belief in their level of competence OR because they have jumped 2 progressive jobs for a promotion.
— Ayushi Mona Singh (@TheMonaFactor) January 2, 2024
Meanwhile, women get married off to NRIs. They lose time in adjusting to the workforce there.
Some women go on maternity breaks and find that they’d rather not do both and over-stretch themselves. Unless they have specific skills that back-to-career programs seek they’re lost.
— Ayushi Mona Singh (@TheMonaFactor) January 2, 2024
Some women get comfortable living life on their husband’s money and follow their hobbies instead like freelancing or baking.
Some women realize that with their husband’s income they can pursue side passions like freelancing or baking that gives them better control of how they manage their time, no office politics, unrealistic travel and pressure that screws up their health.
They drop off.
— Ayushi Mona Singh (@TheMonaFactor) January 2, 2024
The Twitter user also points out how women achieve success in the corporate world very late in their lives.
Most women continue to work hard at their corner because they’ve been taught to nurture.
A lot of dog-eats-dog culture that enables success by projecting achievement in the corporate world comes too late (or never!) to women in life.
— Ayushi Mona Singh (@TheMonaFactor) January 2, 2024
One day you turn around & see all women who are still around in the workplace have
(1) Major financial dependencies (bread earners, no family support)
(2) Still single/young
(3) Generationally wealthy & privileged women whose house help is substituting their husbands share— Ayushi Mona Singh (@TheMonaFactor) January 2, 2024
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This is such a thought-provoking Twitter thread and as working women, we can relate to and understand all the struggles it talks about. As we grow old, there are so many choices that we have to decide between, especially career, marriage and kids. At the end of the day, it is about the choices we make but can we not have everything without having to choose?
First Published: January 03, 2024 7:20 PM
