Sociology 2 term project

FAIMLY

YAMAN KUMAR
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Q1: WHO ARE THE

FAIMLY MEMBERS
YOU LIVE WITH? IS
IT A NUCLEAR
FAMILY OR AN
EXTENDED ONE?
My family is a
nuclear family
consisting of 5
members in total
which are my
mother, father,
sister, brother and
me myself

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Q2: Is your mother a housewife

or a working woman?

My mother is a housewife and

most of the responsibilities of
the household chores are on
her shoulder she works
tirelessly throughout the day
for example, she does the
dishes cleans the house cooks
for us etc.

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Q3: What are the domestic

responsibilities shared at home?
If any, are the roles joint or
segregated conjugal roles?
The responsibility shared in my
household are segregated
conjugal roles. There is a clear
distinction between the work
such as the roles carried out by
my mother are cooking cleaning
doing the laundry. Whereas work
which requires strength or work
related to electronic appliances
such as fixing a blub or repairing
something is done by the father.

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Q4: how are you and

brother/sister treated at home
in terms on traditional gender
roles?
Keeping the traditional gender role in mind I
must say that I and my sister are treated with
leniency and are allowed to do almost whatever
we want such as go out with friends, we are
given the ability to choose whatever we want to
do in our future and our not pressurized by our
parents into pursuing a specific profession but
there are still some things which I am allowed
to do whereas she isn’t such as I am allowed to
go out with my friends without anyone’s
supervision but she is only allowed to go out
with her friends if an elder is with them this
could be due to her age as she is younger and
most probably in future would be allowed to go
alone as she would be more mature.

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Q5: what do you think, difference does it make

to be a female/male member of the family in
your society

In my opinion previously our society was a patriarchal

society and gender made a huge difference in what
activities an individual can do such as in our Pakistani
society girls/female were expected to be housewife and
serve their husbands and do the household chores whereas
men were expected to be the breadwinner of the family
and the one who fulfills the need of the family. In our
society girls were expected to stay inside the house and are
not allowed to go out past 7 pm whereas the men of the
family can do whatever they want and no one cares if they
come home late in Pakistan there are many incidents
reported in which baby girls have been killed as they
wanted a baby boy and considered a girl as a burden. This
type of ideology nowadays has started to decline for egg in
my household girls and boys are treated equally and have
the same rights as each other. And another example of
women being given equal rights as men are that their
education is also being prioritized they are also being given
education whereas previously they didnt receive education
as people consider that it’s not worth educating the women
as in the end they just have to become a housewife and
serve their husband but this ideology has almost Declined
now as women are being considered equal as man and are
equal part of our society.

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