Increasing Gender Norms In Hispanic Culture

When I was five years old, I remember my dad wearing a culinary hat and apron. He used to cook, clean, and helping me do my homework while my mom was at work. During that time, he took time from work because my mom was promoted in her job and she had to work for couple weeks the evening shift. Having parents devoted to their work the same way that they are devoted to their family can be challenging. However, my parents always say, "If God gives you lemons then you make lemonade." My dad loves his job but, at that time my mom had the opportunity to move forward, so they decided to arranged things at home. He took care of the things my mom will most likely do to make sure home will not lose balance. My family comes from a Hispanic culture where …show more content…
Women are blamed for putting her family at risk, and they have a successful career. But, when men are in the same situation, society is more understandable, and they excuse him with the idea that he is at work achieving things to give her family a more secure socioeconomic status. Analyzing both scenarios we can conclude that for men there is always an explanation and justification but not a consequence of their actions. Hispanic society, machismo is justification for men have the privileges and the reason for being above women. In the article Gender segregation and cultural constructions of sexuality in two Hispanic societies written by Taggart, he explains how the simply gender norm can translate to gender …show more content…
However, with that time that term has only applied to men that had been successful in there understood of men. The word machismo is now days is a not just gender segregation against women, but lately, this word is representing the social pressure that had arrived between men. Since the first date, I had with my boyfriend I wasn't expecting for him to pay the whole bill. I was ready to share the bill without question. The reaction that I had from my boyfriend and friends after the episode was disturbed. My boyfriend had a concern about what had happened, and he told me that was the first time that he experience such a situation. He said me that in every first date that he had been, the girls had never offered to split the bill instead they are always ready to see him pay. I explained to him that in my opinion I think is not fair to put all the pressure on him. If we both are having fun, then both should contribute mutually. My thought behind this event is that women are trying to have equality between gender, but they are things such a pay a meal that they are always expecting a man to do it. So here is my disturbance why we are asking for equal treatment when in a small thing like paying a meal we see like action that a man should do. It's true that there is gender segregation that affects women in more of the cases. However, men have been affecting those inequalities. The competition