How Women Prioritise Their Partners’ Job As Opposed To Theirs

In many marriages women tend to prioritise their partners’ job consciously or unconsciously to their own detriment, especially when it involves household responsibilities. This is very prevalent in highly patriarch community where women are viewed as less significance in financing families, that sense of dichotomy as to gender pierce through families and spread across the society. This could also happen in less patriarch society where it involves raising kids and early stages of family to balance the work life and family, women are likely to give up their current jobs or switch to a different job to find that balance, often time they give up on their passion to adjust to their partners’ job.

When it comes to taking decisions that will involve quitting a job to take care of the family or adjust to a type of job that will give time to the family, such decision always go against women. This involves a lot of processes to arrive at that decision, some factors like finances, caretaking, social welfare and family responsibilities, are considered to achieve this decision. In Africa, women are most likely to quit their job to adjust to family demands or switch to a different job that will allow her time to take care of the family, and other responsibilities around home.

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High income earning can majorly play a role in determining who quits the job, it will be factor to make women to succumb. When their partners command finances around the home and almost take care of all the bills, the decision will go against them. This is the limitation women frown against and sue for fair decision, for them such decision is unequal and bias, it negates democratic setting in a family, this could trigger unwanted events in the family which is totally unhealthy for the growth of the family.

This could be a hug setback to professional women, they will not be allowed to explore and reach their fullest potentials, then brings unequal treatment which women kick against. Expectations and what the society considered as orderly will also be determinant, the popular notion of men being the breadwinner and expected to take care of family will take precedence. Women are looking to enter into marriages where there will be equal playground, where both partners will be allowed to go high speed with their careers, without one playing second fiddle, it is about being aware of the situation that will help the process.