Should society ideally create legislation to reserve 50% of jobs in large companies and organisations for women?
Lets set aside the truth that women are better equipped emotionally and physically to create and nurture babies till adulthood. One major problem with women working 10-12 hour schedules (including commuting time) is that children do not get the attention that they need at home. Lack of adequate parenting is producing adults who are not as emotionally balanced as they would have been with home making mothers. We can see this happening in the west where often due to economic necessity (or plain materialism?) the %age of working women is far higher than it is in India. So the pro working women legislation should have a clause that insists that at least one parent should be at home when the kids are back from school to provide the nurturing-even if the father is not equal to the task. Economic laws would result in parents allowing the better paid partner the freedom to pick their job while the other would have to play homemaker, perhaps with a half day job. Allowing both parents to work full day jobs would result in an uneven playing field for families with only one full time working parent. Insisting that one parent was at home after school hours would create a level playing field nationwide.
