Interesting article.

So, here's my honest response.

I don't believe that women are more likely to take of children because they 'want to' or they 'like to'. I think it's narrative. You're the mom. You do it. You're the women. You take care of it. Even when elderly people get sick, it's the woman of the house (the daughter or the daughter in law) who is expected to take them to hospitals and do the care giving.

It's almost as if there is this cult-ish narrative that women must do this because that's the biological destiny of a woman.

Also, I think the workplace situation in India is different. Small towns and tier- II cities (I live in Chd, as you know) still have a huge pay gap in women and men's salaries. So, it's generally the case that the woman gets paid less and also, the woman being younger, is usually at a lesser place in her career ladder as well.

I'm an example of this. I used to earn a very high package in Gurgaon. But due to some personal reasons (clearly I was the woman in my family and thus expected to take care of this), I was expected me to come take care of the issue. I quit my job and moved to Chandigarh. Here, I met my husband and got married. Since I had to restart my career, I was making much less than he did. Even though he is 1 year junior to me.

Still, he makes much more than I do. But I help him in all his work. It's unpaid labour but I do it. He can't do what I do (contracts) so I do all of that on my own.

I can't do litigation because it's A MAN'S JOB here in the courts.

So, it's just easier for me to quit my job when being a woman, I literally don't get paid enough even though I am more qualified than a man. So, the reality in India is very different from the West.