Ricardo Navarro - Weekly Participation

Gender Roles At Home.

During this interview, we discussed the gender roles in our households. I asked my interviewee how gender roles were acted out in her family and how they might change when she gets married. She responded by telling me that for the most part, the gender roles in her house were traditional. Her mom did the dishes and her dad hardly ever did any cleaning. He worked outside on broken things but maintenance was mostly left to her mom. She describes this as difficult because her mom also has a job. She feels that when she gets married, she wants the roles to be split fifty-fifty. However she also said that one gender role that she would fill is that she wants to be the primary caretaker of her child. It seems that my interviewee did not like the traditional ways of gender roles but would like to accept most of the responsibilities.