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Even though this act is permissible in some religions that allows the women to work
and support the family, provided that, the husband is unable to support the family as
in very sick and only then, the husbands are excused from working. Increasing
numbers of women entering the labour force has become a challenge for women, as
they now have to balance work and family responsibilities. Being a working mother
has changed how women allocate their time and negotiate their work and family roles.
2 'The Shifting Of Roles: A Look At The Rising Trend Of House Husbands In The Country'
(Malaysian Digest, 2017) <http://www.malaysiandigest.com/frontpage/282-main-tile/549732-the-
shifting-of-roles-a-look-at-the-rising-trend-of-house-husbands-in-the-country.html> accessed 5
February 2017.
The trend has also altered the traditional breadwinning patterns of a family. Due to
financial constraints, many women feel that they have to work to support the family.
Siti Fatimah Abdul Rahman as the leader of consultation and Exercise in Ikims
Centre specialty in economic and social studies stated her opinion regarding this point
in the Local daily New Straits Times. Her quote was saying as follows; Although
there is no prohibition for wives to work and even if the wife earns 10 times more than
the husband, he still has to provide basic sustenance for the family,. Next, we refer
to Quranic verse 34 of Chapter An Nisa that stated clearly, men should not be
managing the household while earning nothing and the wife is out there working and
earning money to support the household. There are still limitation to this as the
women is permissible to support the family provided that the husband is seriously sick
and unable to support.3
In view of a National Statistics report in the United Kingdom, in 2013, female work
rate achieved a topping 67.2 percent, demonstrating that more ladies are free and
vocation driven. In the interim in Malaysia, measurements issued by the Malaysian
Statistics Department uncovered that ladies dwarfed men in the expert representatives'
classification, with 55 percent of ladies as opposed to 45 percent of men, obviously
demonstrating that the ascent of ladies in the workforce is radically moving here.
Presently we should delay for a speedy history lesson. Examines demonstrate that
dispositions about the parts of men and ladies in the work environment and at home
have turned out to be more libertarian. Individuals have developed more OK with
relational unions in which ladies worked and earned cash. Quick forward to the mid-
90s that advance hit the divider yet the way that the rate of ladies in the workforce
multiplied, and more individuals trusted that men ought to be the provider of the
family. Be that as it may, it has been contended that these seismic changes betoken the
finish of the common request, prompting to statistic changes in an average family
unit, and with the overall monetary subsidence as one of its principle elements, men
4 Jiping Zuo and Shengming Tang, 'Breadwinner Status And Gender Ideologies Of Men And Women
Regarding Family Roles' (2000) 43 Sociological Perspectives.
have been excessively dislodged from their employments and incidentally thrusted
into another and unwelcomed part - the house husbands.
Prior social research on ladies' parts tended to concentrate on the parts of women as
wife, mother of youthful kids and employee. As per Anita Shreve, who composed and
wrote an article entitled Career and the Draw of Motherhood for New York Times
Magazine in 1982, ladies in today's work showcase must have the capacity to juggle
the parts of being wife, mother of youthful kids and employee. Contemporary ladies
need to juggle various parts all the while without the support of their more distant
families. The parts of wife, mother of youthful kids and employee are the essential
and regular parts that contemporary ladies play. What's more, women now should get
the weight of care-providing for elderly parents also. As the assistance of developed
family is not accessible, modern women need to juggle the requests that emerge from
the family space and the work environment with the extra requests of nurturing their
elderly guardians.
The part juggling that comes to pass for the contemporary lady is in opposition to the
conventional parts played by women decades back. Despite the fact that 'conventional
ladies' juggled various parts of wife, mother of youthful kids and employee, either in
the paddy field, elastic domain or other customary town working environment, they
didn't understanding a similar level of weight that contemporary ladies today do. This
is on account of they lived inside the more distant family framework. These
conditions made it simpler and less confounded for customary ladies to do their
occupation, as they were not compelled to disregard their duties towards their
families. By and large, there are four sorts of parts played by contemporary Malaysian
ladies.5
BIBLIOGRAPHY
5 'Malaysian Women And Their Role As The Sandwiched Generation' (SOCIAL SCIENCES &
HUMANITIES, 2017) <http://psasir.upm.edu.my/28249/1/13%20Page%20147-162.pdf> accessed 5
February 2017.
2. 'The Shifting Of Roles: A Look At The Rising Trend Of House Husbands In The
Country' (Malaysian Digest, 2017) <http://www.malaysiandigest.com/frontpage/282-
main-tile/549732-the-shifting-of-roles-a-look-at-the-rising-trend-of-house-husbands-
in-the-country.html> accessed 5 February 2017
3. Zuo J and Tang S, 'Breadwinner Status And Gender Ideologies Of Men And Women
Regarding Family Roles' (2000) 43 Sociological Perspectives.
4. 'Islam Forbids Men From Becoming Homemakers, Says Religious Research Centre'
(Themalaymailonline.com, 2017)
<http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/islam-forbids-men-from-
becoming-homemakers-says-religious-research-centre> accessed 5 February 2017.