Shifting_Roles

Shifting Roles Roles are shifting in many African households. Gender roles are changing as women get prestigious jobs in NGO’s and multinational companies. Women are now bringing in more money into the home and causing confusion because they are torn between contributing more as their husband’s would or insisting that the man provide none-the-less. As women bring home more money it only makes sense that they dictate how that money is used and who gets to touch the money. This spans from which television to buy to where to go on holiday. Thus there is a shift of the role of head of house from the man to the woman. Although in some homes the man insists that he will remain the head of the house and that the woman should provide as he would. As the role of head of house shifts so do the relationships within the home. Traditionally the man was feared by the children, seeing as his word was the law, but now it is the woman who is looked at that way by the children. As women are economically and domestically empowered, they are being empowered socially as well. Before women were expected to stay home women, home, now, role, man, woman, money, head, go, family, children, stay, house, church, being, women’s, traditionally, thus, taking, shift, roles, religious, provide, normal, men, girls, friends, families, empowered, changed, because, work, word, within, wife, weekends