Poonam I am surprised that you have quite narrowly interpreted the term ‘domestic front’ while analyzing my statement and haven’t read between the lines !
Now I didn’t thought I will have to explicate this term which has immeasurable dimensions & coverage, but still I am trying. :o
Domestic front is the arena which never lets a person to win and neither it lets him to quit it !
Though males too have a significant role to play on the household front, but their responsibility is more of broad nature, rather than it being spread across many tiny chores as is the case with the women.
The domestic front is full of newer responsibilities, tasks, odd jobs etc and is a never ending scuffle. Consequently, it leads to anxiety, qualms & stress and is a burden filled, yet inexorable responsibility.
And in case you still aren’t satisfied with the explanation, here comes few examples of what domestic front consists of when I say that it consumes lots of cerebral strength:
- Household works that needs to be done at regular intervals like cooking/getting cooked food two or three times a day, get the dishes cleaned, clothes washed/dry cleaned & ironed keeping into mind which cloth is to washed in what manner as per the type of garment,
- Making a budget and control of expenditures,
- Buying food products, vegetables, spices, beverages, breads, milk etc apart from other regular purchases
- Keeping record of which articles of daily use needs to be procured from market
- Paying the various bills
- Cleaning/getting cleaned the house
- Taking out the trash from various corners of the house from time to time
- Explicit decision–making relating to the household including catering to urgent need for household repairs orcalling an electrician, plumber etc
- Bearing a child and subsequent child–care,
- Making a child ready for school, arranging his school bag, looking at the homework given to him, guiding him in each & every activity & explaining to him various ifs & buts
- Taking care of her husband and sharing his tension he may be carrying from his workplace, looking forward to his needs which he not even mentions, giving an empathetic shoulder to him etc
- Maintaining healthy relations with the family, relatives, circle of friends at work & otherwise, attending various socializing events, deciding & purchasing various customary gifts etc to be given or exchanged at various occasions
- And the list goes on ………….
And believe me this is just beginning of the explanation of this vast term. It imbibes lots of other moral, phsycological, mental, physical duties, responsibilities etc !
Hope you will be able to digest it