This is a topic which might bring very different results in different countries, due to traditions and society. Our students have tried to find out about gender roles in different generations. They have created audiofiles and published them in their team blogs.
It seems that in our students` families the rights and tasks are shared quite equally between men and women, boys and girls. A reason for this might be that we live in the east of Germany, the former GDR, which was a communist state and proud of women`s emancipation. Here, for many families it has always been normal that women had the same chances in education and in work life. Almost 100 per cent of women used to work, mostly full-time, before the wall came down in 1989 - that`s the generation of our students` grandparents. That`s what the parents` generation grew up with and it is an attitude they pass on to their own children, our students. As a result, our students, too, find it normal that both partners in a relationship or marriage want to have a job and share the housework as well as the upbringing of their children. Though they admit and have found in their families that women often have more duties and take more responsibility with children and household than men. All of the girls in our group want to go to university or learn a job so they are independent.
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