Theme 4 (Gender roles / Family life) - summary

And once again, Daria Hałas gave us a hand and wrote the summary of Theme 4.

After talking about media, the time came to talk about family and sharing duties in a typical home in Poland. The most popular model of a family in our country consists of parents and two children, but the number of children is going down, and now more and more people has only one child. 

Usually, household duties are divided between parents, and kids help them to keep the house in a good condition. In an average family the mother raises children, cooks, cleans, washes the dishes or does the ironing while the father does the DIY jobs, takes care of the car and the garden. Parents receive help from their children with small things, like dealing with flowers, cleaning or making dinner, etc. Sometimes teenagers look after their younger siblings, like Agata does.

The distribution of duties mainly comes from the stereotype of a traditional Polish home for the past, where the man was the primary breadwinner and woman's role was to run the house. Women did not work, so they had time to look after children and let men support home.

People in the past had more obligations, mostly because of the fact that they lived in villages so they had to work on the farm, which was a very demanding job for all of them. Our parents and grandparents had a lot of responsibilities apart from going to school, but as Aneta said, today we have more worries.

Nowadays the situation is changing. The majority of women work and both parents raise children (not only mothers) and make decisions (not only fathers - heads of families). We walk away from the patriarchal type of a family.

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