Many years ago, in Nigeria, the mum and dad were working class people whom would take their children to their schools (leaving their house helps at home to clean the homes and also handle their children upon their arrival from school ) on weekday. With the economic crunch around the world, some Nigerian mums have been unable to get a dream job and have agreed to work from home by handling the home front while their husbands go out to become the sole bread winners and providers.The complexities around the homes demand that some of these mums do remote jobs from the home while still carrying out the very basic tasks of a stay at home mum which include teaching, cleaning, counselling, cooking, being a nanny(caregiving), and being a nurse .These tasks are no doubt routine yet so demanding and challenging .
In these times of shared responsibility where a husband and his wife are meant to share domestic responsibilities equally,when we talk about inclusive economy, the question arises:who will pay the wife for all these tasks?The husbands respond that this is why a woman exists in a home.This perspective of analyzing a stay at home mum is wrong and not objective for what it is.
It is high time we start appreciating these stay at home mums by paying them monthly or periodically.They also need to be enrolled into pension schemes and any other welfare package that will encourage the stay at home mums. We understand that they may enjoy the flexibility of this responsibility but we do understand that this responsibility involves a lot of energy.We must remember that the society is first molded in the home and so if the society fails that means some mothers (especially the stay at home types).
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