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Gender Roles In The Honduran Society

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Gender roles are supposed to be equal when it comes to job opportunities and salary. However, in the Honduran society men are expected to do all the hard and dirty jobs and females are expected to do all the easy jobs. In fact, this stereotype is reinforced from a young age. Boys are given machetes and girls are given meteates (the instrument women use to grind corn into meal). With the purpose that men grow up to work in the fields and women to be the house keeper. This prevents women from having any kind of opportunity in entering a workforce field were just man are expected to be. But even if they were to get a chance to actually work in any of this fields, in addition to having to work twice as hard in order to get the job, are then paid

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