Keeping a home successfully can be very exciting and at the same time very tasking as keeping a good home involves many things.
When two matured adults agree to come together to make a home, there are certain responsibility each of the party must take to make the home conducive for the children and the family that would live in the home.
In keeping the home, the role of the woman cannot be overemphasized, as she is regarded as the heart and soul of the home. Keeping a home involves so many things. Some of the things that people should look at when they intend to keep a home successfully are the financial implication, which is like a major aspect in home keeping because it involves payments of utility bills, general cleaning of the environment, feeding, etc.
In the society today there are socially ascribed roles that are what the society generally sees as the role of both the male and female in the society. Some of these socially ascribed roles include providing finances for the home, seen as the responsibility of the man, while the maintenance of the home and cooking, in fact, the general housekeeping is seen as the sole responsibility of the woman. These are just socially ascribed roles.
The role of women in keeping a home cuts across the socially ascribed roles as the society we find ourselves demand that both men and women can contribute to the successful upkeep of the home not minding the socially ascribed roles.
Women can contribute immensely to the upkeep of the home, not only in the general sanitation, but also help in reducing the financial burden required in the home. In some cases, women are the main bread winners as the men do little or nothing to help in the upkeep of the home.
The role of women in the financial support of the home cannot be overemphasized and over looked as women now contribute a lot to the financing of the home. In our society today, we see women involved in different jobs and businesses just to help keep their children and their home in a good state. While some women are very active in providing finances for their homes, some other women are totally dependent on their husbands; which is not suppose to be so, as women should be able to support their husbands in providing for the family.
Women can improve their lives and that of their home in diverse ways rather than sit and wait for their husbands to bring home stipends that would not be enough to keep the home. Women should be supportive and be fully involved in the running and the provision of basic necessities in the home.
Women empowerment is of great importance because of the impact on women and as such its impact on the home and that is why there are various programmes to make women independent as the financial burden on the men is becoming too much lately. These empowerment initiatives should be embraced by the women that have access to it as no knowledge is lost. Owing to this program, women are educated and trained on different live skills to help improve their lives.
There are various things that women can do to yield income for their families; some of these things include; petty trading, tailoring, knitting, hair dressing, hat making etc. These things can help in improving the income of the home as they are services that are needed frequently. Women should not sit idle at home all day; they should get involved in different income yielding activities that will help them contribute positively to the upkeep of the home so as to avoid being over dependent on the men.
Education for women is very useful; be it formal or informal. It can go a long way in helping them improve their lives. Therefore, women should not shy away from it because the training gotten from these forms of education can make them job creators instead of job seekers.
As the heart of the home, women should live up to their responsibilities as mothers in keeping a good and successful home for it is from a good home that a good society emerges and as such a good nation at large. Women should also know that they are very important and vital to the upkeep of the home, as it is said no woman, no family; no family, no society; no society, no nation; no nation; no world. This is how important women are in the society.