To what extent has the male and female roles changed in the past 20 years
Changes… Everything changes… There are so many things changing while I am writing this essay. The thing that looks like constant is changing in long term. Nothing is constant.
Because of our revolution of politic system, there are so many things changed too. One of important thing is role of female and male. I am 20 years old girl from Mongolia. Now, I am going to tell you about some changes in male and female roles between the year of my birth and this year. When I was a little child everything was different. Actually I can’t remember every detail of the roles but I can have much information about the year of 1990’s from any article.
I illustrated some changes in my essay. Here we go.
Firstly, it changed in politic. There were not so many female politicians in Mongolia. Not only Mongolia but also many different countries were not accepting female politician. Male only made decisions. Their status was really high everywhere in the world.
Secondly, it changed in our home. Husbands never do housework, never cook, and never look after their babies. They thought that male is the king of home and must not do housework. But now, husbands help their wives in Mongolia. Many women started working and started earning a lot of money. So women started to make decision and men follow. But it is not about every family. Some families still maintain their family rules that wife has to do housework and look after children without doing job and husband has to work and earn money and make big decisions of the family.
Next change is that in business sector. There were only businessman during the 1990s, but now there are so many business women who are running their own business successfully. People did not hear the female leader’s words. They thought that female can’t lead the group or company. Most of the leaders were male. Now, female could show off themselves that they can lead a group of people and they can be successful in business world.
Now, let’s talk more about the situation in Mongolia. There were fewer changes in foreign countries from 20 years ago to nowadays. For example, in Korea and Japan only male work and feed their family. They do not let female to work. Wives has to stay at home and clean home, cook, look after babies and cook dinner before their husbands arrive at home and wait 20 years ago. These countries family system is still the same. There are only a few females work, who are really into their occupation or whose husband has died. In United States of America both of the male and female work, and earn money to live. It is still same for now.
The country that the most of changes occurred is Mongolia. Mongolian men worked and earned money, and most of the women stayed home as like as other Asian countries. During 1990s parents thought that girls are vulnerable, and boys are strong. So, parents decided to send their girls to study at university. They did not consider on boys, because they believed that boys can find the way of living easily with their strength. That is why people did not send their boys to university.
Now in Mongolia, all the female well educated and easy to find a job, but males are not educated enough to find a suitable job.
Everyone would agree that money is one of the strong things to influence people and their life. I mean that females earn much money than males. So there are many problem occur in family life. Women want to make decision and want to be the king of the family, because she feeds all of the family members. On the other hand according to the Mongolian tradition, males have to make decision and be the captain of family. So males complain about the status of them.
Finally, I have some ideas to solve these problems.
1. Parents need to send both of girls and boys to university, without any indiscriminating. Then the status of female and male will be the same as each other.
2. Before wedding, husband and wife need to talk about the role of the family member. And if they agree on each other, there will not be so many problems about the role. If they can’t agree on each other they can talk about it again and again till solve problem.
3. Mongolian males need to be more enterprising. They need to be for the sake of live.
From my point of view, the changes of roles are good thing. Everything improves because of changes. If one aspect changes and then other aspects start to change and it would be the revolution or the improvement. I hope that the change of role female and male will influence Mongolian economy, politic, and development.
