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Really? When travelling in Northern Portugal in the late 90s I saw women manually pulling ploughs on their allotments with their husbands, female builders, rubb
by ljf 3y ago
Really? When travelling in Northern Portugal in the late 90s I saw women manually pulling ploughs on their allotments with their husbands, female builders, rubbish collectors and taxi drivers.
In the 2000s saw very similar sights in Bulgaria - gender roles seem far less fixed than you might imagine if you only watch TV or films.
- bboygravity 3y agoCan confirm female garbage collectors (and factory workers and fisher women) are definitely still a thing in 2023 Portugal.
- alephnerd 3y agoTbf, Portugal in the 1990s wasn't comparable to other countries in Western Europe. In the 90s, Portugal's HDI was comparable to Poland and a number of other Eastern European states and still is to this day. Salazar's dictatorship did a severe number on Portugal's development. And ime, housewife type experiences definetly skew towards those who can afford a household on a single income - especially looking at countries c. 2010-2023 with similar developmental indicators as Portugal and Eastern Europe in the 90s.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoThat seems to be the general case for most countries. It's only in a few countries where there's a large gender difference for outside labourers, ironically it seems to be inversely proportional to how much it's talked about in a given society.