Question
Describe the increasing role of women in public life.
Solution
The role played by women are:
(i) Women do all work inside the home such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, tailoring, looking after children etc.
(ii) In villages, women fetch water, collect fuel and work in the fields.
(iii) In urban areas, poor women work as domestic helper in middle class homes, while middle class women work in offices.
(iv) Now women are working as scientists, doctors, engineers, lawyers, managers and college and university teachers which were earlier not considered suitable for women.
