HOW THE ROLE OF WOMEN AND MEN HAS CHANGED

The role of women and men has changed enormously over the last 30 years. But do
they have similar responsibilities these days?

40-30 years ago women´s lives and men´s lives were absolutely different. While boys
were educated to be the head of the family, earn a salary and wear the trousers in
the marriage, girls were brought up to be good mothers and wives. Consequently men
used to work all day outside the house and women would look after their children
and the house. It was absolutely normally that men didn’t know neither cook, nor
iron nor give a bath to their children, and it used to be an exception that a woman
worked. For example, when I was little all my friend´s mother didn’t used to work
and I remember that I didn’t understand because my mother had to work and she
couldn’t go to my school´s parties.

Currently, in Spain at least, the role of women and men has changed dramatically.
Firstly as boys as girls are brought up to study and to get a profession so that
they can have a successful career in the future, as a result, both of them when
they are adults, work outside the house. However women usually have jobs with less
responsibility than men because employers see them as an expense because of
maternity leave. So a woman has to work harder than a man if she wants to get an
important post. Another major change is that, as men and women work outside the
house, in the marriage they have to share housework and education of their
children. Therefore, men have learnt to do a lot of things. Now they sweep, dust or
dress their children. Nevertheless, It´s understood still that women are the main
responsible for their children and the house and men only should help them. In my
case my partner cooks and cleans, but I have to tell him how and when he has to do
it.

Although nowadays women have more responsibilities and a harder life than men, I
personally believe that these changes are positive because they are part of a
process in which we are engaged to get complete gender equality.

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HOW THE ROLE OF WOMEN AND MEN HAS CHANGED

The role of women and men in the family life and work has changed immensely over
the last 30 years. But do women have the same rights and duties as men nowadays?
Or, in exchange, have women got more responsibilities than 30 years ago?

Traditionally, women have worked at home. They used to do the household chores and
look after their children while the husbands were working to feed the family. I
have one brother, and my memories are all about being with him and my mother, doing
my homework, going shopping or playing board games in my living room. My father
rarely appears in these memories, because he worked nine hours a day with forest
machinery. He would go back home at seven or eight o’clock in the evening and he
was so tired that he only wanted to have dinner and watch TV.

At present time, women and men’s daily routine has changed enormously. Firstly,
female population has joined in the labor world and they hold management posts with
more salary and responsibilities. Mainly, it is due to the fact that the prices of
food, clothes, petrol and home are higher and families cannot survive only with the
man’s salary. In many couples, women earn even more money than their partners and
they take charge of the main bills. So, it is common for women to be the head of
the family. On the other hand, there is a more balanced distribution of housework
between both members in the couple. Husbands and male partners have learnt to cook,
wash dishes and plug in the washing machine, because their wives and girlfriends
aren’t at home all day.
Finally, another major change is the children and old people care. It used to be a
task only for women, who had to look after their children, parents and parents-in-
law. However, people don’t have enough time nowadays, and they prefer to employ
social workers for their elderly relatives and activities out of school for their
sons and daughters.

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HOW THE ROLE OF WOMEN AND MEN HAS CHANGED

Over the last 30 years the role of woman has changed enormously. Furthermore, this
situation affect significantly to marriage. But, to what extend, are these changes
positive of negative?

Everyone is aware of the fact that women’s role has dramatically changed. for
instance, 30 years ago, women used to stay at home looking after their husband and
children. Nonetheless from that time on, women have improved their qualifications
and thanks to that, women are more in depended since they get their own work
contract with out the need of depending from men.

Nevertheless, apart from all the positive points mentioned of the previous
paragraph, there are some negative aspects to take into account. As soon as all of
these changes happened, women spared more time in their jobs than at home. That is
the reason why family structure has changed dramatically. Nowadays, families are
smaller and there are a good deal less children. As women work outside their home,
both parents have more trickies to bring up a large family.

As a consequence, both parents have short time to see each other, that make they
run out of love and in the end they break up.
That is the reason why there are more single parents.

Finally, in my opinion, regarding to this topic, there are both, advantages and
drawbacks. I totally agree that women have to and need to work outside the home to
get their independence and their own social life. But I personally believe that
they should work as a part time in order to take their time to be dedicated to
there nuclear family as well as grow up.

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WOMEN TURN TO MEN AND VICE-VERSA

Women’s and men’s roles have changed enormously over the last 50 years. However, is
it a good change for society?

Obviously, It’s difficult to look back and apreciate how partnership has changed
fifty years ago due to I’m in my twentys. Although, according to my grandparents
changes are evident. On the whole, men used to be responsible for work, make money
and give protection. I mean they had to support the family and make sure they
couldn’t be damaged. In fact, ladies might have gone for a walk with a man to feel
safe and a gentleman always paid in a date. On other hand, women brought up
childreen and done housework. Basically, the perfect wife had the house cleaned and
the meal just cooked on the table by the time her husband arrived at home.
Generally, wifes depending on husband to life.

Nowadays women and men mixed roles. In other words, men usually do shopping, cook,
some of them help female to clean their own house and give cares to progeny. In
fact, they could be out of work for months because of being on a father leave.
Talking of women, they work out of home getting a financially independent and as
result, they have the possibility to get a life by her own.
Sinceraly, the new situation gives benefits to female and male because it lets both
to enjoy all in all in life.

Do these changes mean that society is evolving in a good way? I personally believe
that they do, but perhaps not everybody feels the same.
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SUPERWOMEN'S TIME
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Women's lives have changed enormously over the last 50 years. But do they have a
better life than their mothers did?

Traditionally, women have worked inside home cleaning, cooking and taking care of
their children. I remember how in my home town, ordinary people had in addition to
work in the olive fields in winter, in the cotton fields in the spring and in the
vineyards in autumn, due to the low salaries. In a family all the components had to
work, the parents and sons in the fields and the daughters, till they were strong
enough, as nursemaids. Consequently, the mother and daughters would work inside and
outside home, whereas men only did outside. Obviously the money women were paid was
not their property but the father.

At first sight, it would appear that our lives have advanced enormously nowadays,
due to electric machines that helped us to do the household chores, but it is done
mainly by women. When men get involved in that, they usually say they "help his
wife" as if it is not his duty.
Moreover, when a couple have children, the responsibility always fall on the woman,
because of her nature, of course, but in most cases due to men don't get involved.
That is why a high percentage of single-parent families consists of the mother and
her children.
As a result, women become responsible mothers, whereas men become single without
responsibility.

From my point of view, women in our culture have achieved their independence,
supporting their families, with children or without them, although the price they
have to pay is to become SUPERWOMEN'S.

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CHANGING GENDER ROLES.

Men and women´s roles in society have changed hugely over the last 30 years. But,
this change in gender roles has been good or bad for the future generations?

Firstly, a gender role is the place you hold in the family, relationship or society
being male or female. Historically, we learn what is a gender role intuitively by
observing our family relationships and society around us. So, a man´s gender role
was the breadwinner and earning money to support the family. However, a woman´s
gender role was to care for the family and household.

In the last few decades, however, these gender roles are getting closer. It is
common to see more and more woman heads of household providing most or all of the
household income. Being dads who stay home bringing up and caring for children.

These days increasingly, young women continue their careers after having children
at the same time they building a family and fulfill her role as mother. As a
result, young men aspire to care for their children as a first priority, rather
than their careers. More than anything this is due to the fact that both genders
worry far more than they used to about finding a balance between work and life.

Do these changes mean that parents are more involved in the lives of their children
and that boys and girls have role models? I personally believe that we should make
our life and work choices based on our goals, interests and priorities, and not
only in what society says we must do.
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The role of women and men.

Fortunately, the role of women and men have changed a lot since thirty years ,
although some strangers, who write and public books as “Cásate y sé sumisa”,
doesn’t want changes. Well, apart comments, many time ago, thirty years, women did
all homework and were looking after children at home while men were working outside
and earned money. In other hand, it was too many stereotypes about jobs for men and
women, for example it was rarely to see a woman bus driver o truck driver, if women
worked outside they did as a teacher, or a man working as a nurse was unusual, for
that they name is male nurse, absolutely different than now.

Although the situation has changed, is not enough. Nowadays, our society is sexist,
not egalitarian and above all very hypocrite. I say that because we have big sexist
problems and our effort, in my opinion, gone in the wrong way. The Institution
expends time and effort on use of language not sexist, is not bad but is most
important make efforts in egalitarian education since we are babies and to destroy
deep sexist habits, rules and law establishes for a long time ago. The society
changes quicker than law.

In conclusion , the role of men and women are different now than thirty years
before, the more level of education of people the bigger is the change, for that is
absolutely necessary to improve the quality of our education.
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Change the minds of women in society

Everybody can see when we walk by the cities that the role of the women and men
have changed over last 30 years. What has caused these changes? Why did that the
women work out of her houses?
Before of our days, usually the men worked out of houses to maintain the homes
while the women stayed at home in order to do homeworks. Just in some places you
could see a several women that they worked out of their houses, like farmer or in
similar jobs. Being that, this jobs are more delicates and it's better than those
jobs are done by women.
The advance of the society has done that people want to live better that several
years ago. For this reason, members of the family, father and mother have to work
out of houses in order to earn a lot of money and so, they can spend in comforts
and whims and not to have needs.
So, women spend a lot of time out of her houses and the role of the men has changed
because both share houseworks and don't stay at home. Not in all position the role
of the women have changed as in some sectors like industrial don't want them to
work there. Moreover, they have other handicap. If they want to have a child, it's
so dificult that a business hire them. In other countries the maternity leave is
shared. And this period is the same for both.
I think that it should revise the laws in this way. The maternity wouldn't be a
problem to hire a women. And the mind of the people should change too, because some
women are worse than many men and they criticize about themselves.