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Author: Erin Million
Education and Women:
Free education up to sixth grade then any school beyond that is the parent’s responsibility. Although, some people who cannot pay do have some school where they can get help. Most families would prefer your son to go to college/university. Most women stop at sixth grade or junior high. My father valued education very highly so fortunate for all of us we went to school. Most other families if they can afford it they send their children at least to high school. I’m sure it was hard for my dad, with seven children, and thinking back I’m sure I could have done better in school. I was young and stupid and I didn’t think of school as being that important. As matter of fact, I skipped school a lot, not knowing what kind of value it has. When I was in middle school I thought of being different things. I thought I wanted to be an interpreter for the U.N. I thought that would be a really interesting job. So I studied English probably harder than anything else. I think it would have been very difficult for my father to send me to college. They had a choice between me and my brother because my brother is two years younger than me. So for them to do two kids at once would have been too difficult. So without knowing I kind of made the choice for them by rebelling.
At the time I was growing up most women are stay at home moms once they get married. It was a male dominate society, women didn’t have much political say, if they did say something not many men would take them seriously. There were only a few jobs women could do, office work is one of them. Not much claiming the corporate ladder because the opportunities weren’t there. Some women did have there own company, family business for example, maybe they grew up in the business. Because after the war many business did open up, so some women but usually sons. Women generally do things behind the scenes. For example with my family, when there is something to be done the man would consult the wife or mother and that’s very common. They do it from the background.