Gender Roles

When our grandparents were young, the man had a job and the woman stayed at home to do the household tasks. One the one hand the sons of the family helped the father at job but they didn't have to help at home. On the other hand the daughter helped her mom at home. In conclusion, if you were a man you had more priviledges.

When our parents were young, the situation got balanced. The sons of a family started to help at home and some women started to work outside home. At home the tasks were more distributed, but the woman still did most of the things.

At our times, boys and girls do the same tasks at home. And their parents too. There are still some jobs considered male jobs such as bricklayers, plumbers., mechanics, etc. Fortunatelly things are changing.

  

Gender Roles by Vagabmanel

Unit 3: Technologies

Now, in our free time we use new technologies like ipods, mp3, mobile phones video-console games. We use the internet to access social networks like facebook, tuenti, etc. also we use internet to watch videos, films, videoclips, and download music and others but now a law has been approved and in the near future we won’t be able to do it. Sometimes we also use a player to listen to music.

When we were kids, we used to watch TV in our free time. Our favourite series were Dragon ball, Pokemon, Doraemon and the Simpson... . Sometimes we met friends in the street and we played traditional games. But now with the new technologies we speak a lot with friends on MSN or chat on facebook and play computers games.

During school time we usually use computers because now all the homework looks better if it’s typed with the computer and internet is a really good working tool because we don't need dictionaries or encyclopaedias. We just type anything on the Google bar and that’s all.

When our parents were young they didn’t have the technology which we have today. On TV there were only two channels where you could only watch the news (strictly controlled by the government). Definitely they didn’t have any videogames or computers, and they spent their time playing in the street.

If they wanted  to listen to a cassette, they had to go to a music shop and buy it. The first videogame in Spain appeared in 1983 and it was in 2D and in black and white.