“It can be speculated that as adolescents grew older, their mothers started to experience the pressures of socializing them in traditional gender roles (Dasgupta, 1998, p.962). This quote relates to me because my mom feels the pressure from the South Asian community to socialize my sister and I as “good wives and mothers”. Majority of the mothers in my family are South Asian Mothers and in the future I will also be a South Asian mother. The Pakistani mothers in my family feel the pressure to conform to the construction of the “good mother”. My mother and my aunts constantly feel they have to cook, clean, provide for their children and spouses. This is because my mother and my aunts believe they have been socialized that childcare and housework
