Cicero gender roles need to change at home
April 15, 2019
It is obvious that traditional gender roles at home are still very common to this day, at least in Cicero, girls do the cooking and the cleaning, and the boys do the heavy lifting.
Times have changed and places are progressing, which means the traditional gender roles need to stay behind.
People are too used to the way things are set up and would hate to make a change by changing the roles at home. Nevertheless, everything else in the word is being modified so should this.
According to “Gender Inequality in Household Chores and Work-Family Conflict” by Javier Cerrato and Eva Cifre, “Results show that traditional gender roles still affect the way men and women manage the work and family interaction.” This shows that the way people view the responsibilities in the household and workforce are still being affected in a negative way.
According to “Gender Inequality in Household Chores and Work-Family Conflict” by Javier Cerrato and Eva Cifre, “So the degree of participation in the home role will create difficulties for participation in work, resulting in the home-work conflict.” This statement leads us to believe that when the person must complete both tasks, they are more likely to not be able to give their all to the other part of their day. For example, if a mom has to wash the dishes, clean the house, and make sure her children are fed, and they have their homework done, it would be more stressful for her when she has to go to work because she has done so much at home.
In my experience, since I am a female, I am expected to go to school and get all my work done. I am also expected to get great grades. When I get home from school, I am expected to help my mom cook and clean. The expectation that I have to help cook and clean comes from my dad, because he is a strong believer in gender roles. While I go to school every day, I must keep up with my work. At times I get stressed that I have homework to do because I also have housework that needs to get done.
Going to a students’ home, we will most definitely be able to observe the gender roles at home. The girls go home and are expected to help their mom clean and cook, while boys are going home and playing their video games and waiting for everything to be done for them.
Antonio Ballesteros • May 15, 2021 at 10:23 pm
Judge: as a wise man once said “swing swong your opinion is wrong” I know a lot of dudes including me a BOY that are expected to get school work done and do chores especially if there being raised by a single parent. Some are even told to just get a job before or instead of attending school. luckily my parents tell me to focus on school but I still take out the trash, wash dishes, wash clothes, and occasionally I’ll cook. I do agree that the work should be distributed equally or fairly in the house sorry it’s not that way for you, and I can see that it bugged you enough to put this article out here. and the work should be given to who’s the best at it if you got some little boy and a bigger stronger ripped girl than yeah I would say yeah have the girl help and do the heavy lifting or vise versa if the boy is stronger(which usually is the case it’s just basic biology or the ladies just don’t workout some women are stronger than men but if you take strongest man and strongest woman and have them compete man most likely wins) anyways just keep in mind everyone has there strengths and weakness with different abilities and this is good because we all need each other as a family to survive. If there’s a more diverse set of skills than the likely hood of success will be high.
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