Traditional Gender Roles

How gender roles are currently changing and possible future changes? Even though some traditional gender roles are still present, many have begun to adopt a more modernized form of gender roles. Some women and men have begun to move past societies expectations, and there are some families that still hold on to tradition. For example, in many families, males are still the head of the house. Men are traditionally viewed as the driving force behind the household. They are the ones who provide for the family and make all the economic decisions. The males also set the behavioral guidelines for both women and children. Females, as we’ve also seen, are the caretakers and their sole duty is to take care of the house, children and husband. In the interview

She assesses their necessities, well-being, safety and acts accordingly. Secondly, she has to cook and it is her responsibility to take the kids to and from school. If there’s an accident, she is the one who take the child to the hospital. If her husband needs to go to the hospital, then she has to take him and translates for him. She also supports her family’s spiritual life and administrates the finances when Rodo, her husband brings home the check. When, was asked about his responsibilities, he said that he disciplined the children and supported them through their sports. He mentioned that he very rarely makes time to play with them because his job is very time demanding. Upon reviewing Macias’s answers to these two questions, it can safely be said that the Mexican culture has traditional gender roles for the most part, but when it comes to paying the bills and buying necessities, Norma is the one to take care of that. When Macias was asked if she viewed her family as a traditional family, all she would say was “it is our culture”. She said that her family’s gender roles were traditional since the father goes to work and the mother takes care of the house but, there is a mutual agreement that if there is a necessity or if she wants to, then she may

More people of the Mexican culture remain to be concerted with blue-collar jobs and more people of the American culture tend to be concerned with white-collar jobs. After interviewing Macias, a conclusion was conducted that socially, the individual and/or family are viewed at a higher rank if an individual has been in the USA or if the individual has a family member living there. The Mexican Culture is considered to be a stratified society. There is some color hierarchy, for those who are more “white” are those to be considered to be at a higher social status. Thus, those who are of a darker skin color are particularly given less social prestige then individuals or a lighter skin. In the past when Macias mom was growing up she said that homosexuality was not accepted. In the Mexican culture, it was allowed for a person to beat an individual up for being gay and law enforcement would not even intervene. This is different from America because law enforcement will always intervene. Homosexuality is slowly becoming a norm in the American culture. In the Mexican Culture young man have been killed just for being gay. Macias believed this was because the norm for a family is to be constructed by a dominant husband and humble submissive wife. If a women was married and the husband beat her, the wife would be in the wrong. Woman were always considered to be in the wrong and initially deserved that beating because either she