It IS bad.
As an educated woman she is not using her education to any good (to society as well as her family) and is essentially dependent on her male family members for income. She is being told to be that way by being sweet-talked to. In a place like Pakistan, a working woman is looked down on, but that is changing fast. The time for those hackneyed ideas have come and gone. Even if money is not needed, women should still have any work skill they can fall back on and continue working, regardless of income. Even teaching and working in banks is considered honorable jobs in our countries, especially if it does not involve customer service.
What she does not realize (and there are not very many women who don't realize it), is that situations can change, deaths can happen, and divorces too. Family dynamics are hard to predict. Women dependent on male family-members' wages could be out on the streets before they know it.
This is not the 1930's when you have to support an older woman to save the 'izzat' and family honor. Times are tough, and more so in a place like Pakistan or Bangladesh where there is little leeway to support an unproductive family member. Now millionaires' cases are different, but that is an outlier situation. There are enough family situations where we see a woman being treated in a substandard manner because they are dependent on other people's (males) incomes.
Once a woman is past 40, with no marketable work skills that are in-demand by employers, she will be relegated to very low wage jobs such as teaching kindergarten kids or working at menial positions. No sane intelligent woman would put themselves in a situation like this...and I won't let that happen to any female members of my family by far.
@snow lake your perspectives please.
@waz bhai, could you please do us a favor. Some cleanup needed above. My Thanks in advance.
