“New India’s’’ Inflexible Workforce – Caring is but Women’s Work: Shalini Grover, Ellina Samantroy, Nupur Dhingra Paiva

Women would continue to drop out and be ‘poor performers’ as long as the mindset at the very root level of our society glorifies their role at home and negates their contribution to the work@office.

KAFILA - COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006

Guest post by SHALINI GROVER, ELLINA SAMANTROYandNUPUR DHINGRA PAIVA

A recent BBC article, ‘Why Motherhood Makes Indian Women Quit Their Jobs’ (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-32377275), examines the factors that prompt large numbers of women to drop out of India’s workforce. Despite the country’s growing international reputation as the “new India,” with its allure of economic prosperity, globalized cities, and modern lifestyles, it is not clear how much of the female labour force is contributing to paid employment. Liberalization has indeed opened up opportunities for an entire cohort of young urban women who work in IT, outsourcing, hospitality, media, beauty parlours, cafes, and malls. Ironically, in a period of high growth and open markets, labour surveys such as those conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) reveal an overall declining rate of female labour force participation, an issue that has become a serious concern for policy makers. A World…

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Garden Blooms :)

This is how we recycle stuff at home…

And also deal with the very long summer holidays 😉

(Helped Diya make this used curd box into something more presentable to keep her hair-clips)

Hope Mark Z is not reading this ;)

FaceBake? Baked Face? what a name for a Bakery!

Her stories

Came across this piece of paper while clearing book shelf in Diya’s room. This was amongst many other scribbled notes in her books. It reminded of my own childhood. I too used to keep jotting down what I felt and observed in my journal. But it was much later than her age now.

This is what the note says (translated):

My story:

One day my mom and dad were discussing about me saying that : our child would grow up to be a good child. I heard it and was very happy. I love my entire family very much.

(I guess she must have overheard one of those many conversations which A and I were having about her.)

Endless conversations

And without a single pause in between 🙂

I wonder what makes kids such great story tellers! Is it their imagination? Or is it that they try to fill in their time with as much words as they possibly can?

Goa!

All in two days!

Because sometimes you crave for something light  🙂 (To compensate for other heavy stuff in life maybe !)

Up we go!

Then

And
Now

Momma’s lap is getting smaller for the big girl now!

Iqbal

– The movie that makes me cry every single time..

And each time I am smiling through those tears!