Can a husband force you a wife to quit job?
simran
(Querist) 27 August 2018
This query is : Resolved
Hi Team,
I wanted to understand if a husband can force a wife to quit her job though before marriage the husband clearly knew that the wife is a well educated ambitious girl who wants to work until she has lot of dependencies to take care of like a child etc so she would take a sabbatical when needed.
Thanks!
Isaac Gabriel
(Expert) 28 August 2018
Mutual understanding alone can strenthen family life. If fissures arise, should sort out issues.Forcing the other to do a particular thing won't look nice.
Dr J C Vashista
(Expert) 28 August 2018
Hi Simran,
Did you get marry or waiting ?.
How you are concerned with the topic for debate?
Guest
(Expert) 28 August 2018
Legally the husband cannot force his wishes on wife, but mutual trust & confidence is a must to lead a happy married life and to fulfill common aim of wish fulfillment of each of the spouse with mutual understanding.
However, as of the need for mutually sharing the family responsibility, earning of money should be the aim of only supplementing the income of husband, if he alone is not capable of bearing the whole burden of family alone.
Although money is the need of all the individuals and family, as a whole, but being well educated does not mean that the aim should be restricted to money earning alone by neglect of husband and family needs. If husband alone, having sufficient income, can afford to bear with the burden of a family, where arises the need and question of earning money? If husband is ready to take full responsibility of bearing with the burden of a family, education of a wife can well be utilized in culturally development of children and to lead a happy married life and should be avoided to be made the cause of conflict between husband and wife at all costs..Happy married life runs with culturally and morally developed children, not by neglect of husband and children by spending most of the time outside home in attending to the requirements of employment that too without mutual understanding with and consent of the husband.
Moreover, sabbatical leave can only be a short term temporary arrangement for taking care of a child. That cannot be a life long arrangement for Development of happy married life and culturally developed children. Taking sabbatical leave is merely a compulsion of a woman, not a part of happy married life.
So, when education of a wife is solely aimed to earn money and fulfillment of her ambitions, that becomes the sole cause of conflict and the loss of faith, mutual trust and bonding between husband and wife to finally result in to an unhappy married life.
So, you may better use your own wisdom how to act, i.e., at your own whims and fancy or to act with mutual trust, confidence and willingness of your husband. However, if there is actually a compulsion for you to do a job just to supplement the huband's income to support the family, you may better convince him on the need of your doing a job, but not as of your being well educated.
K Rajasekharan
(Expert) 28 August 2018
The husband has no authority of whatsoever nature to ask his spouse to quit her job as per prevailing law of the land.
But other matters associated with it lie outside the ambit of law. They will have to be settled as per the practices of the family and the society in which both spouses belong to. If there is some conflict it will have to be settled through the mechanism prevalent in the family and the society in the initial stage before moving on to courts in diverse forms.
The court essentially do not provide any healthy solution to family issues in practice even though they are built for the purpose.
