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> But after the government built houses for each former FARC member and their families, everyone started cooking at home, where kitchen duties have fallen on th
by antihero 5y ago
> But after the government built houses for each former FARC member and their families, everyone started cooking at home, where kitchen duties have fallen on the shoulders of women, unlike their time in the guerrilla, when men and women cooked as equals.
What a terrible shame. Without passing any judgement, going from an equal society created from desperation, since being given what they need to survive, returning to one of traditional roles.
- Ostrogodsky 5y agoIt was never an "equal society" +90% of the guerillas were men, as it always have been through time in all societies. Men are the ones who must fight.
- peteretep 5y agoA quick Google has about 40% of FARC as being women; do you have a better source? https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/09/farc-deal-female-fighters/501644/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/09/fa...
- pm90 5y agoIt’s a common theme across cultures that when farming is invented then division of labor falls along predictable lines. In this case, I’m guessing it’s implied that men were working in the fields?
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoIn Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell mentions this happened as well. Almost as if it's a natural human behavior or something.
- unixhero 5y agoOf course it is. The men use physical strength in the fields for gathering or hunting, while the women take care of children whom reaction for them and want their support.
- int_19h 5y agoExcept that hunter/gatherer societies specifically tend to see much less gender-specific work, contrary to such "common sense" assumptions.