Knowing BV creatives - perhaps the demand of a realistic working woman is too much. They will either show a superwoman - managing everything impeccably, doing no mistakes both at home front and work front, don't need any help from anyone and still be always fresh looking and willing to do all the work herself. Or if the woman is not positive character - then she will neglect household duties, ask her husband to share work and be mean to other family members.
So, we have seen Ganga (Anandi is not really working because she is not paid for her social work, she just do it for helping other people) - working in hospital, then managing household work and then even tel malish of DS - after all this - not even tired or irritated. And we have seen Gauri in Mumbai - sandwich, pizza et al.
Real working woman is somewhere between them. She will need help in household work, she will be tired at the end of the day, she will feel even irritated for all the work sometimes and she has to compromise both at home front and work front. Like Ganga (working not under her husband or not family hospital) would not have allowed to go to hospital even before asthi visarjan of tauji - so what if there is an accident, so what if her duties are needed in hospital - she has to be there in home till the time of mourning is over. If this results in negative impression at workplace - it not family's concern. Similarly, there may be times when a working woman has to miss some important family function because there is important work in work place. All this will never be there in a serial. In BH, there are three very young children, both Ganga and Gahna working and even DS not doing any cooking or taking care of children - still everything is perfect. (I sometimes feel so jealous and sometimes feel very incapable when I see these women. For there were several occasions when I had to leave my child (when he was not well) in creche because I could not get the day off and felt guilty all day. And I have to give my presentation for an important meeting (that I prepared with such dedication) to a colleague just because there is some important occasion at home and I had to take leave even at the displeasure of my boss. My fellow working women sometimes do feel that they are not doing justice to both home and office responsibilities and many have even quit job because they cannot cope with the guilt feelings even though they did not have a bad mother-in-law).
But I still wish they show a woman - who loves her work and even her family, tries to do as much as she can, still needs help in home and asks for it also, not always perfect in everything she does, has to face boss's ire for taking leave for something important at home, and also family's unhappiness over her going to office on any important occasion in family etc.
