Oven Microwave Combo

The working mother, a winner all the way

The day starts for Professor Asha Ramachandran (35) at 5 a.m., when she gets up from bed in a hurry. A four-burner gas stove and a microwave oven in the kitchen couldn't cope with her speed. Within an hour, the menu for the entire family, including her son's evening snacks, is ready. And, mind you, no chef can compete with her.

An hour later, Keshav, her six-year-old son, is still in bed trying to avoid the sunlight peeping through the windows; within minutes, a complete transformation takes place when he turns out to be a neatly uniformed boy waving bye to his mother from the school van. Then comes the next portfolio for Asha with a full list of commitments for the day. She returns home anxiously only to assist her son in his homework and to feel proud of his performance in school.

She is the embodiment of the many-handed Kali. So are the employed women of today. A working woman's life is all about balancing many balls at a time without slipping a single one.

In ages past, women stayed at home, preoccupied with the family, taking care of children and providing emotional support for the members. But now, they feel that their traditional roles as childbearers and homemakers must be coupled with achievement outside home. In this context, it is inevitable to investigate the impact of such a phenomenon on society as a whole and on childrearing in particular.

Socio-economic profile

India has 397 million workers, of whom 123 million are women. Of them, 106 million are in rural areas and the remaining 18 million in urban areas. Only 20 per cent of the women labourers work in urban areas. Women are an estimated 38.2 per cent of all economically active individuals. They earn 66 per cent of men's salary for equal work; the socio-economic condition in India has contributed to the need for dual income in middle class families. With a population of a little more than a billion, India is the second most populous country. The literacy rate among women is 39.3 per cent and they make up 28 per cent of the labour force which constitutes educated employed women (Catalyst, 2011).

Indian women were traditionally housewives; education to them was given only to the level that every one wanted to be educated. Now India has the largest number of professionally qualified women. This includes female workers at all levels of skills — from surgeons, pilots to bus conductors and labourers.

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We remodeled our kitchen two years ago. We installed a stainless steel convection oven/microwave oven unit. The microwave is on the top and the convection oven is on the bottom. Before doing so, we were thinking about installing a microwave oven "drawer" but went with the wall oven combo. We love it and it's very convenient. For example, yesterday morning, I baked cinnamon rolls in the convection oven while cooking a frozen dinner for my son in the microwave. It's very convenient having both types of ovens in the same place. Used one for almost 4 years -- small combo microwave/convection oven, made by Sharp. It was a counter top appliance. Excellent but you have to follow the instructions. Surprising, max oven baking temp was 300C (570F). Used to make an excellent pizza in it. It had 2 selves inside, each 14in x 11in. I took out the shelves and tossed in an 1/3-in thick piece of granite. Baked excellent breads in there, too.

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