Although in the West pregnant women aren’t treated any different but here in India, sadly the mindset is yet to change. People believe if you are pregnant you need to stop working and Omg! How can you step out with a baby bump?? Like say what? The reaction or let’s say the society’s overreaction just doesn’t let a pregnant woman stay in peace. Which explains why Priyanka Chopra too didn’t think twice before giving it back to this ridiculous demand made by a corporation which mentioned a clause that she cannot get pregnant. Yes! Also read: An APOLOGETIC Priyanka Chopra finally breaks her silence on her controversial mag cover
In her recent interview, Priyanka recalled to one such regressive episode stating, “I was signing a contract for a big corporation a couple of years ago, and a clause there said that they (corporation) could terminate it (contract) if I got pregnant. I was livid. How could you tell me I could not get pregnant. Not sick, not overweight, just pregnant! Their logic was that I would not be able to deliver the project on time. I was fine with working when I am pregnant. We had a big argument over it. I said ‘Alright, if I can’t deliver when I am pregnant, you have the right to terminate my contract. If I can deliver, and you don’t want me to, then I have the right to terminate” *Slow Clap*
Now this is how you give it back to someone who impose limitations on women. Not to mention, Kareena Kapoor Khan who is expecting her first baby this December too went through a similar situation when she announced her pregnancy. She had lashed out saying, “I’m pregnant, not a corpse. And what maternity break? It’s the most normal thing on earth to produce a child. It is high time the media back off, and stop treating me any different than I ever was. Anybody who is bothered shouldn’t work with me… but my work goes on as is, like always. Stop making it a national casualty. We are in 2016, not in the 1800s. Probably, even at that time, people were way more civilised and normal than the way the media is behaving and speculating now,” says Kareena, adding, “I’m just fed-up of people making it (her pregnancy) to be a death of some sort. In fact, it should be a message to a lot of people that marriage or having a family has absolutely nothing to do with my career.”
On that note, what are your thoughts?