1. woman and men in the 20th century

In the 20th century, the women stay at home to take care of the children and the house. The women are under the influence of men. They don’t have a job because their job is to take care of the house. The idea of a men doing the housework was not possible because the women where there to do it. Society was built like this and it was normal. Education was made so that the girls stayed at home and the men went to work. The woman spend their day doing housework, take care the children, cooking for the family,… they reproduced what their mother did. The girl’s school was a housekeeping school. In 1969, the mixed school is imposed in primary school and since 1975 the mixed school is obligatory in all school. The objective of these laws was to give the same opportunities for girls and boys to succeed. The school helped woman to change the image they had in society. With time, the mentality change and the place of women is changing. Women fight to change their social status. Their fights have consequence on the vision of the housewife. At the end of the 20th century, there is an improvement in the standard of living witch allows women to go to work. Men find it difficult to do housework. For example, in 1999, women spent 3 hours and 30 minutes to clean the house whereas the men spent 2 hours. This inequality is one gender inequality among many other.