Equality is a significant principle of our Constitution. The Indian Constitution says that being male or female should not become reason for discrimination. It is the duty of the government to understand the reason for the inequality that exists and take positive steps.
For the same, government has set-up anganwadis in several villages. The government has passed laws that make compulsory for organisations which have more than 30 women employees to provide creche facilities.

Housework indeed involves a lot of tasks. A number of these tasks require heavy physical work. Physical work involves fetching water, carrying heavy headloads of firewood, etc.
Housework involves more tasks such as washing clothes, cleaning, sweeping, cooking, etc. The work women do is strenuous and physically demanding and usually these words are connected with men only.

It's not just mothers and other women who perform the housework. There are domestic workers who work at others' home in order to earn. Their life is full of struggle.They do lot of work like cleaning, sweeping, washing clothes, cooking, care-taking, etc. They are paid very less as their work does not have much value. They have to begin their work as early as five in the morning and work as late as twelve at night.

In Madhya Pradesh, boys and girls went to separate schools from class VI. The girls' school had a central courtyard to play for the safety of girls while the boys school had no such courtyard. The schools were designed differently for boys and girls.

According to research reports on Samoan society, children never went to school.
Both girls and boys took care of their younger siblings. Boys used to go for fishing and plant coconuts once they completed nine years whereas girls were given freedom after the age of fourteen. Boys were supposed to do most of the work while cooking and girls just helped in preparation.

Yes, I know one domestic helper who works in my neighbourhood. Her name is Chameli. She is married and has two children and lives with her husband in a nearby slum area. She is employed as a full-day worker. She has to work for almost 14 hours i.e. 7 in the morning to 9 in the night and receives Rs 2000 for a month, which is very less according to the work she performs and the time she gives for her job.

List of toys and games, boysand girls play are
Boys Cars, Guns, Football, Cricket, Kabaddi, Hockey
Girls Dolls, Kitchen set, Badminton, Ludo, Cooking items
Yes, there is a difference between the two sets of toys and games as there is a
difference between boys and girls in respect of strength, stamina, etc. The games they play are a way of telling that they have specific roles to play in their future as men and women.

'invisible'means the work which is not seen from eyes, for example, amount of time and labour that goes in preparing food.
'Physicallydemanding' means we have to do hard manual labour to complete a task. It is tiring and the hardwork tells on one's health, like fetching water or firewood in rural areas.
'Time consuming' means the work which needs considerable time to be completed.

1. The care of the house and keeping a watch on the activities of domestic help are invisible.
2. Washing of clothes is physically demanding.
3. Cooking food and cleaning the house is time consuming.

(a) True The way of working of girls and boys differed in Samoa.
(b) False The toys given to girls and boys are different which defines their specific roles in future.
(c) False Women do more work than men and as such they do not get leisure time.
(d) True The work that women do is less valued as the work they do at home is not recognised as work and is assumed as something women are naturally gifted with.

(a) Total number of work hours spent by women in Haryana is 53 and in Tamil Nadu is 54 in a week.
(b) Total number of work hours spent by men in Haryana is 40 and Tamil Nadu is 44 in a week. Women contribute more than 33% of their work hours in household work and men contribute just 5% of their total work hours in household work.

Men and boys generally do not participate in the housework because they believe that household work is the responsibility of women and they are not taught to do such work from the beginning.
Yes, from my point of view, they should participate in the household work as housework is a joint responsibility of all the members who live in the house. If women can work both outside and inside the home, then men should also work in the house.

If my mother or those involved in doing the work at home went on a strike for a day, the house will be all jumbled, because it is the mother who manages all the work in the house.

No, Harmeet and Shonali were not correct in saying that their mother did not work because their mother used to stay at home and do all the household work for which she was not paid. They developed a notion that she did not work.

Yes, this is because the nature has made them different and generally they do differently, with some exceptions.
The landscape would change completely

No, girls are fewer than boys.
Yes, during evenings or at night, there is less safety for women and girls from anti-social elements.