THE WORKING MOMMA
“My mom is having NAAC visit in college, so she was not able to make me do my homework,” replied Babu, a 5-year old boy innocently to his angry tution teacher. His teacher first stared at him angrily and then burst out laughing. This incident that happened with Babu is probably the plight of many kids with working mothers today. With the fall in corona curve, many work places and educational institutions are resuming to the offline mode of functioning; many places have observed a surge in the workload of the employers thereafter. Now this is the plight of all employers irrespective of gender, but the burden of it is mostly borne by the working women, especially the “working mothers.” Together with working full time in the office (even overtime, if necessary), she has to balance multiple other things in a calculated fashion – online classes of kids and their exams, the night’s dinner with breakfast and lunch of next day, aging parents and in-laws, grocery, cleaning the house….the list