When it is Daughters, we want to be supporting their careers, baby sitting her children and helping with house hold chores too.
When it is Daughter in laws, we do not even motivate them to carry on with a decent job.
When Daughters, we advise them to pursue to take only 3 months maternity leave to avoid a long gap in the career.
When Daughter in laws, we expect them to take a sabbatical for years till the child starts going to school or at times even post that.
When it is Daughter, we want them to spend lakhs on their shopping and looking beautiful. We are proud of their spending.
When it is Daughter in laws, we want them to be natural and find any basic efforts of grooming to be over fashionable.
When it is Daughters, we get an executive check-up done even for a simple head ache.
When it is Daughter in laws, even a severe illness needn’t be given importance and spent upon or the other extreme way is if she falls ill we says what a weak girl my Daughter in law is.
When a Daughter has Male Colleagues whom she works with shoulder to shoulder or late hours, we are proud.
When a Daughter in law even works in an office filled with Male she is characterless
When a Daughter carries herself well she has a style, a good dressing sense and mannerism too.
When a Daughter in law carries herself well, she is being fashionable attracting other Men.
A Daughter is taught how to hook up and control her husband and in laws.
In case of Daughter in law, the son is expected to control Daughter in laws.
Definitely one partner should compromise, sacrifice and maintain a low profile when it comes to a successful Family. But should it always be the same partner all the while or should it be divided.
Wow! What a society we Women have created for ourselves? Hats off to our double standards which we have nourished and empowered for generations.
So true and sometimes I wonder why it has to be like that anyway. To me I feel Everyone in a family should be treated equally whether related by blood or by marriage