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la © te Sl 24%, , € _jess404.pdf Q &, , Boys and girls are brought up to believe, that the main responsibility of women is, housework and bringing up children, This is reflected in a Si:XUAL DIVISION ©}, LABOUR in most families: women do all, work inside the home such as cookir, cleaning, washing clothes, tailoring,, , after children, etc., and men do, all the work outside the home. It is not, that men cannot do housework; they, simply think that it is for women to, attend to these things. When these jobs, are paid for, men are ready to take up, , A poster from Bengal affirming women’s _ these works. Most tailors or cooks in, , strength. hotels are men. Similarly, it is not that, women do not work outside their home, In villages, women fetch water, collect, , Let us begin with gender division. This fyel and work in the fields. In urban, , Sexual division oflabour: | iS 4 form of hierarchical social division, , A system in which all work | seen everywhere, but is rarely recognised, , areas, poor women work as domestic, , helper in middle class homes, while, inside the home is either in the study of politics. ‘The gender, done by the women of the, , middle class women work in offices. In, , Oak rome division tends to be understood as natural fact the majority of women do some, , aie and unchangeable. However, it is not sort of paid work in addition to, , domestic helpers. based on biology but on social domestic labour. But their work is not, , expectations and stereotypes. valued and does not get recognition., , The result of this division of labour, is that although women constitute half, of the humanity, their role in public life,, especially politics, is minimal in most, societies. Earlier, only men were allowed, to participate in public affairs, vote and, contest for public offices. Gradually the, gender issue was raised in politics., , Why not? If Women in different parts of the world, , politics is about organised and agitated for equal rights., , power, then There were agitations in different, surely male, dominance in the, household should, be considered, political., , Aare Ld, Peeler Rant, SMT Hilo) ie), Soa Ley, textbook on, , Loli tale] Bella ta, Is this politics?, , countries for the extension of voting, rights to women. These agitations, demanded enhancing the political and, , legal status of women and improving, , 2021-22, , their educational and career question helped to improve women’s, opportunities. More radical women’s _ role in public life. We now find women, movements aimed at equality in personal working as scientists, doctors, engineers,, and family life as well. These movements Jawyers, managers and college and, are called i:MINist movements. university teachers which were earlier not, , Political expression of gender — considered suitable for women. In some, , division and political mobilisation on this parts of the world, for example in, , PERCEPTIONS OF IDEAL. WOMAN, , TO THE, TV SERIAL MAKERS