WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE (with emphasis on marital stereotypes) By Maryam Chauhan "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." - Virginia Woolf Robbing a human of his potential is the worst of all thefts. Butchering someone’s dreams is a murder par the heights of brutuality, it demands apathy akin to that of a seasoned assassin. Sucking the ‘marrow of life’ out of a living being and condemning him to a life of utter monotony and choking boundaries is similar to slow, cold torture that is meant to bleed a human dry of his very essence of being alive. Ancient India used to perceive ‘steya’ (theft) and ‘hinsa’ (violence) as the worst of all sins and here we are, living in an India where these injustices are the norm. Now I request my readers to kindly switch all the pronouns used in the above paragraph from ‘him’ to ‘her’. I used male pronouns in the dim hope that it might make a difference, it might stir...
Research, Academia, Analysis and everything in between!