This week while conducting an interview on how the roles are allocated in the household of the interviewee along gender roles, I found that the interviewee lived in what would be considered a 'typical' or 'nuclear' household. In the interview the interviewee said that the mother, while they lived in another country, stayed at home and took care of the household while the father went to work. However, once they moved to the United States the only difference was that the mother now went to work too. Once she came home though she still took care of the household and the children. She performed all the cleaning, cooking, and most of the child rearing. However, when asked the interviewee said that they do not want this to be the way that once they are married the roles are played out. The interviewee said that they would like a much more egalitarian household, where husband and wife separated the jobs equally.
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