Hunks And Handma Analysis

My stay at home mom teaches my older sister and me how to cook and clean for our future husband. Aside from getting my education, learning how to do housework is second important skill we need to have. My father does what a stereotypical man does, which is go to work, come home and has the remote in his hand the rest of the day. But I try to resist these lessons becoming more conscious about a woman 's role in being a marriage. Before my mother quit her job to be a fulltime housewife, she worked the second shift as described by Arlie Hochschild, which is after the workday the mother still works by doing housework and taking care of the children (Kouri, PPT, Second Shift power point presentation, Slide 6). At the time my mother had a low …show more content…
My mom tries to teach us to cook meals for my father for when he travels but I’m left wondering why he can’t do it himself? My sister and I become a substitute for my mom when she travels and do whatever she does because my dad refuses to do anything because he thinks it’s training for marriage. In “Hunks and Handmaidens” by a Newsweek Staff, she tells a story that her handsome son gets his room cleaned by his smart current girlfriend just because he mentioned that it was dirty and on instinct, his girlfriend started cleaning his room and after his mom explained that he could do it himself, the girlfriend got mad that she was cleaning for him. This heavily hits me because I feel like because my parents drilled these gender roles into me that I may subconsciously fall into the woman’s gender roles even though I try so hard avoid it. These roles turn girls, what the Newsweek Staff alluded to, a literal handmaiden for men because they’re trained from an early age to take care of them and become a second