Housewife as a career

Housewife as a career

From Media Indonesia

In a recent television talk show in conjunction with International Women's Day on March 8, there was a discussion on the extent to which being a housewife can be considered a career.

The anchor of the talk show said that it was time to stop belittling women who filled in the occupation column of their identity cards with the word "housewife".

In Islam, it is well known that the Prophet Muhammad decreed that the position of mother was most honorable, and once said that heaven lay under a mother's feet.

It is true that women have made outstanding and extraordinary achievements as housewives, especially when viewed as managers. A woman is pregnant for nine months, then she endures the birth process, breast-feeds her baby and raises her child until he/she grows up. These activities testify that being a housewife is in itself an outstanding career.

JUNARI Jakarta