FOUNDATION OF HUMAN SKILLS SURVEY PRESENTATION

HOUSEWIVES

A PROFESSION, UNINCORPORATED
INTRODUCTION
• TERMED TO EMPHASIZE THE ROLE OF A WOMAN WHICH
HAS BEEN WORN BY CULTURE SINCE YESTER YEARS
• “BRIDE TO CRADLE”
• A HOUSEWIFE CREATES A LINKAGE BETWEEN THE
FAMILY AND SOCIETY
• THE FEMININITY IS A CHARACTERISTIC WHICH
STEREOTYPES THE ROLE OF WOMEN AS HOUSEWIVES.
• UNSALARIED BUT HIGHER WORKING HOURS
•“A HOUSEWIFE IS AN ACCOUNTANT, A GUARDIAN, A MAID,
A CHILDMINDER, A GOVERNESS, A COUNSELLOR, WHOSE
SERVICES COME FREE OF CHARGE TO THE FAMILY.”
SUMMARY
• General questions which generate a
prominent pattern, but also break
the stereotype
• Selected questions are meant to
generate an emotion within an
individual as they have been
psychologically created
• Questions providing freedom of
expression have been spawned to
create a stereotype as well as a
countertype
CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

 One of the earliest theories to the foundation of

psychology
 This theory makes an individual derive a mindset for
a reference subject
 Experience on the reference subject fixes a mindset
 An unfavourable selection will be invalid to the
interviewee
 A discomforting experience will motivate the
interviewee to make a selection which involves her
naivety, immediately in contrast of the fixed bias.
THE CLASSIFICATION SCHEMA
Divided into categories of religion
and age to generate an exemplified
pattern being permeable to the
sect.
 Your preference “Joint Family or Nuclear”?
100%
80%
60% Nuclear
40% Joint Family

20%
0%
Muslim Catholic Gujrati Sindhi Punjabi Others
RELIGION [CASTE]

100%
80%
Nuclear
60% Joint Family
40%
20%
0%
20-50 AGE 50+
 Are you in favour of studying after marriage?
100%
80%
60% No
40% Yes

20%
0%
Muslim Catholic Gujrati Sindhi Punjabi Others
RELIGION [CASTE]

100%
80%
No
60% Yes
40%
20%
0%
20-50 AGE 50+
 Do you indulge free lancing/ Work/ are you unemployed?
100%
90%
80%
70%
60% Unemployed
50% Work
40% Free Lancing
30%
20%
10%
0%
Muslim Catholic Gujrati Sindhi Punjabi Others
RELIGION [CASTE]

100%
80%
No
60% Yes
40%
20%
0% AGE
20-50 50+
 What do you give more weightage to socializing or familial affairs?
100%
80%
60% Familial Affairs
40% Socializing
20%
0%
Muslim Catholic Gujrati Sindhi Punjabi Others
RELIGION [CASTE]

100%
80%
60% Familial Affairs
Socializing
40%
20%
0% AGE
20-50 50+
Do you favour the traditional roles to husbands and wives?
100%
90%
80%
70%
60% No
50%
40% Yes
30%
20%
10%
0%
Muslim Catholic Gujrati Sindhi Punjabi Others
RELIGION [CASTE]

100%
80%
No
60% Yes
40%
20%
0%
20-50 AGE 50+
 Your husband monetarily contributing to your exclusive needs and demands or you being an eccentric fulfiller?

100%
80%
60% Eccentric Fulfiller
Husband's Monetary
40% Contribuition
20%
0%
Muslim Catholic Gujrati Sindhi Punjabi Others
RELIGION [CASTE]

100%
80%
Eccentric Fulfiller
60% Husband's Monetary
40% Contribution

20%
0%
20-50 AGE 50+
 Do you have the liberty to manoeuvre your house-hold expenditures in
embarking upon unprecedented situations, e.g. inflation?
100%
80%
60% No
40% Yes

20%
0%
Muslim Catholic Gujrati Sindhi Punjabi Others
RELIGION [CASTE]

100%
80%
No
60% Yes
40%
20%
0%
20-50 AGE 50+
Do limits to your freedom of action exist within your family?
100%
80%
60% No
40% Yes
20%
0%
Muslim Catholic Gujrati Sindhi Punjabi Others
RELIGION [CASTE]

100%
80%
No
60% Yes
40%
20%
0%
20-50 AGE 50+
 Do you feel at times you are simply a domicile, maternal gatekeeper?

100%
80%
60% No
40% Yes

20%
0%
Muslim Catholic Gujrati Sindhi Punjabi Others
RELIGION [CASTE]

100%
80%
No
60% Yes
40%
20%
0%
20-50 AGE 50+
 Opting for an outsized abode for eminence or a generously proportioned at-home to alleviate your role as “the gatekeeper”?

100%
80%
60% Generously Proportioned
At Home
40% Outsized Abode
20%
0%
Muslim Catholic Gujrati Sindhi Punjabi Others
RELIGION [CASTE]

100%
80%
GENEROUSLY
60% PROPORTIONED AT-HOME
40% OUTSIZED ABODE

20%
0%
20-50 50+
AGE
“Kyuni Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi” or “Desperate Housewives” which
television show do you watch?
100%
80%
60% None
Desprate Housewifes
40% KSBKBT
20%
0%
Muslim Catholic Gujrati [CASTE]
RELIGION Sindhi Punjabi Others

100%
80%
None
60% Desperate Housewifes
40% KSBKBT

20%
0%
20-50 AGE 50+
 THE SUCCESSIVE PALPABILITY
 An obvious answer to the following question
 One for All Vital question of “Joint Family or Nuclear”
 A straightforward question which is doesnot perturb the interviewee but helps expect a
typecast selection pattern

Likely Expected Outcome based on Initial Selection

Joint FamilyUnfavourable towards Studying after MarriageUnemployedFamilial
AffairsFavour of traditional rolesHusband’s monetary contributionControl over Liberty of
action and expenditure
Nuclear FamilyFavourable towards Studying after MarriageFree
Lancing/WorkingSocializingUnfavourable towards traditional rolesEccentric
FulfillerLiberty of action and expenditure

HOW IS THIS OUTCOME SUPPORTED?

JOINT FAMILY: Socia-cultural traditional background and
the system of “Grihastaram”
NUCLEAR FAMILY: Liberty to action, modest and modern
approach
NEUROSIS & HORNEYS NEUROTIC NEEDS
• A psychological theory by Karen Horney
• Emotional disturbances cause anxiety and
internal conflicts
• Possessing such a catharsis is now a
predetermined need of an individual
• A housewife is more likely to possess majority of
the neurotic needs as she being a female has a
higher emotional quotient
• A housewife is physically nurtures the home and
mentally (metaphysically) nurtures its members
THE LIST OF 10 HORNEY’S NEUROTIC NEED

Need for Affection & Approval

Need for a Partner who’ll take over one’s life
Need to Restrict one’s life within narrow borders
Need for Power
Need to exploit others
Need for Prestige
Need for Personal Admiration
Need for Personal Achievement
Need for Self-Sufficiency and Independence
THE CONCLUSION
• No firm reason exists for one selection.
• Theories do not provide accuracy reason for
selection.
• Theories lack the ability to predict an
individuals psychosomatic temperamental
variability.
• A stereotypical pattern has been compromised
by the existence of stereotypes.
• Contemporary & erstwhile, internal and
external factors affect an individuals selection.
 A Housewife is
not just a “Bride
to the Cradle”
she is infact a
“Bride to the
 THE
Creators
END
: Aarti Loyalka (45),
Ammar K Lokhandwala (44),
Krishna Luthria (47),
Meghna Kukreja (43),
Priyanka Makhija (48),
Raksha Lulla (46)