COMMENT | Socso housewives scheme: Valuing sacrifices of homemakers

COMMENT | This Labour Day, I pay homage to the endless work that housewives put in to ensure they raise a happy and healthy family around the clock.

Looking after the family and managing a home, are by far two of the most challenging jobs in the history of mankind.

Being a housewife essentially is a 24-hour job with no emergency leaves, sick leaves, annual leaves, salary and pension. Yet housewives continue to dedicate their entire lives to this unquantifiable labour.

Working women who come home after work are magically transformed into housewives.

Single mothers as housewives take on the role of fathers as well. I would know it – my sister and I were raised by a single mother after my father’s passing in 1995.

In December 2022, the Madani government introduced the...