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Tag: household chores

  • Household Productivity

    Often considered an alternate economy, household productivity does support the mainstream economy and boosts domestic output albeit indirectly. Household productivity or the time spent in chores done to keep the home in order aren’t considered a part of nation’s economy as it alters the conventional parameters and can be misleading in policy making decisions.

    A proxy indicator can be utilization of automation and outsourcing. Automation indicators like sales of refrigerators, washing-drying machines, dishwashers, robotic vaccum cleaners, etc are already part of Gross Domestic Product. It’s time now that outsourcing chores also gets measurable indicators and thereby included in the formal economy. For example childcare, gardening, home maintenance and likes are already listed services available in developed nations. Adding cooking cleaning, laundry, pet care, etc to the catalogue would make it comprehensive and give more dignity to these workers.

    Here’s wishing for more power to the unorganised sector in the future decades! 💪

  • Groceries got a Gender!

    When did grocery shopping get gender-ised?! When a gourmet grocery outlet opened in my locality last month, the late-adopter in me sat back and waited to pickup the feedback buzz from the early birds. While that took longer than a month, I happened to browse through their website via a local number which came into circulation as a group forwarded on a WhatsApp.

    While the outlet itself is a part of the larger retail group and hence gets credibility from the corporate brand, I was aghast to find labels like ‘her’, ‘she’ in describing their target customer segment and clientele on a public forum. As far as I remember, grocery was simple affair where the man got supplies what the woman cooked. Seems men got smarter to offload this ‘homely’ chore in the turn of the century and women lapped it up like a glorified shopping experience!

  • How to train your Husband

    A supportive hubby is a fundamental necessity for any working woman. Once the invisible load is shared equally, it gives wings to both spouses to fulfill their ambitions. Alas fully trained husbands are superbly low in supply. So here’s how to become an in-house trainer.

    The early bird catches the worm so can be applied to the boyfriend as well. So start early by constructing simple single verb tasks for him. Keep doling out atomic tasks thereby enabling him to manage the whole area say laundry or dishes end to end by the end of the training period.

    Nothing better than training our sons – after all childhood lessons shape the personality. Teaching life skills like cooking, meal planning, running a home to a boy ensures we add to the supply pool of future ‘trained husbands’. Yes you can thank me later.