Choices! What will it be? #46

Oh how I love this particular contest that I'll be keeping tap for the next, each new week, because in life we are all entitle to make choices whether good or bad.

Greetings my beautiful ladies both home and in diaspora, I trust you are doing great. I am here again to participate in choices, what will it be season 46, organize by our amiable friend @patjewell on the following topics to make our choices:-
Nurse
Therapist
Photographer
Housewife
Magician
Thank you ma'am, I can see that this week choices are very unique, all centers on profession.

So I will be choosing Housewife as my choice for this week to write on......

Let's look at the different definition of a "housewife" depending on one's perspective.

Traditionally, A housewife was a married woman who did not have any paid job, whose primary assignment was to manage a household, give birth to children and also tied down with the responsibility of raising those children.

Their duties typically were:-
Cooking
Cleaning
Doing laundry
Childcare
Shopping
And every other domestic activities you may think of.

This definition reflects a very uncultured saying that "A woman's place is in the kitchen". Oh God! Can you imagine that....and there are some men who still practice this, they don't want their women to be exposed by working, they preferred them to be full-time housewives.

So in my opinion; the term housewife is very outdated and limiting. Because it does not really capture the different roles that people take up in their homes, it could be a woman or a man depending on the understanding between husband and wife. I have seen a man cook, clean, do shopping and even baby sit a baby also, so these duties shouldn't be applicable to one gender to the extent that people makes it look like a career.

Many people who managed a home are not termed as housewives but house keepers, because sometimes the term "housewife" can have a negative connotations, which simply implies that the person do not have a career nor personal fulfilment and this can take a toil or bruise someone self confidence and ego.

A man and a woman should be able to bring something to the table, in order to be valued because marriage is a joint efforts. Not one person being subjected to slavery in the name of a "housewife".

A woman was meant to be "a help meet for the man not a slave" as some men portrayed a woman to be.

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That is why my bible beautifully put it in the book of proverbs chapter 18 verse 22, which says:

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favour from the Lord.
-- Proverbs 18:22

Wow! This is so sweet, that means I am to be sought after, I am a good thing to a man, and a man will not only found me, there's a promise attached from God; that he will receive favour from the Lord. Therefore a housewife is worth more than rubies not to be seen as someone whose primary duties are to care for her home.

Note:-

Please it is very important to recognize the complexity and value of housework, not minding who does the work. And we should avoid making assumptions and application about someone's life based on the term *.
In other words respect individual's choices.

In conclusion: Every girl, every woman please wait until you are found(that's married), don't go and assumed the position of a housewife when you are not yet married to.