Originally Posted By: LCN1987
Please don't compare gender roles in Iran with gender roles in USA. It's like comparing Hitler with Martin Luther King.


And that's based on how long living in Iran? When it comes to gender roles, there's not much difference. I just compared them for the sake of my own life. Deal with it.

And individual choices are not the issue. There are women who make more money than their husband here. A dentist makes a very good living. Those whose wives are dentists, usually don't work at all. It's like that almost everywhere. And the society is exactly the same. Ivy whose idea is a common point of view in the US, is saying what mullahs here are saying all along. "Primary role of women are homemaking and raising kids." Well to be honest, even mullahs don't say primary role of women is homemaking, they just say it is raising kids. Work outside the home while is okay, shouldn't interfere with that primary role. Moreover, whatever woman makes outside, she doesn't have to spend it for her family. It's hers to keep. Homemaking is role of a maid that husband would have to pay for it. But since middle class can't afford it, it falls on women to carry that burden as well, work outside and spend their income to live better lives. Just as what's happening in the US.

Last edited by afsaneh77; 05/21/13 01:40 AM.

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