Women and Health-Why Women Ignore Their Health?
Why do women give the least priority to their health? Mala is a thirty-year-old housewife who is juggling looking after her one-year-old daughter, doing household chores, and taking care of her in-laws and her husband. She was married at the age of 25, before that she was disciplined about her exercise and diet regime. But after marriage, she hardly gets time to exercise. She needs to be ready at 8 am so that she could serve breakfast to her father-in-law, then prepare tiffin for her husband and send him off at 9 am. This requires her to be in the kitchen at 7 am and this does not leave her with enough time to do her exercise. Now that she has a daughter it has become impossible for her to think of her health. Though she knows only proper exercise, diet and rest can give her mental and physical health yet she has never made other family members aware of her needs and this has become a routine for all. Nancy is forty years old and she works as an assistant manager in an IT company. Thou...