The role of men and women

The role that men and women have had over the centuries has been conditioned by social and cultural factors which have given rise to differences in the way that men and women act in several fields of life, such as economic, familiar, or social ones.

In my country, differences between men and women were very noticeable thirty-five years ago, but little by little, things have been changing and, fortunately, there has been enormous progress. Previously women worked at home and very few could go to University, for example, if they married and had two children and one of them was a boy, the boy, even if his sister was older than him, had a preference to study at University, while his sister was taught to be a good housewife. Nowadays, that is unthinkable, although there are exceptions.

In my family, for example, there are three men and three women. I have two brothers and one sister and when my mum asks us to help her to do the households, she always asks my sister and me and not my brothers, and I am always complaining about that because I think that it is a male chauvinist attitude. However, the opposite happend here with one of my flatmates in England. He is an 18-year-old boy and he knows how to cook every meal, how to wash his clothes, how to iron...and he also cleans everything. He does everything much better than the girls in my flat(including me. Last Tuesday, for example, I told him that he would be a good family-man and he told me that his mum had taught him how to do everything, and then I replied him "your mum must be very proud of you", because I was thinking that my little brother is 19 years old and he does not know at all how to cook, my mum always does everything for him.

In conclusion, as far as I am concerned, I think that England has progressed more than Spain in gender issues.