This are the questions we had to ask:
Topic: Gender related roles
Main question: have the relations between men and women changed with reference to education, roles and opportunities?
General Questions
Name and age; M/F.
1. How many people were there in your parents’ family?
How many people lived in the same house?
Nuclear or extended family? Explain
2. What was the profession of your father / mother?
3. Where did you live with your parents (please add map - Google Maps).
4. Do you remember any historical fact / event when you were a teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) either in India or in EU or worldwide. Why were you impressed by that event?
Specific questions 1 – 5 are related to the time when the
people interviewed were about 14 years old.
1. Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?
- Was the relationship of boys and girls equal in your family? Yes / No.
- If not, which were the differences?
2. Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school?
- Were there differences in the kind of high school that boys and girls chose? Yes / No.
- Were girls considered in a different way from boys at school? Yes / No.
3. What differences were there between men and women with reference to work?
- Were there jobs for women and jobs for men? Yes / No.
- Did women and men have the same opportunities with reference to work? Yes / No. Why?
- What kinds of jobs did men usually have and were typically male jobs, and which ones typically female or didn’t it matter very much?
4.. Did women have the same salary as men?
5. How was household work divided among men and women?
- Did men help women in the household work? Yes / No.
- If yes, which were/are the main household chores the man did?
6. Do you consider women to be completely emancipated nowadays? Why (not)?
7. Has the position of women in society changed with the help of the government? Y/N If yes, how is it changed?
Here you can see the intervieuws
[09-12-20 13:24] Lianne Bouwknegt (211650)
Interview Dad I interviewed my dad as well. His name is Mathieu and he’s 44 years old.
1. He live with four people, so a standard family •
On board with the four of us, my father is a skipper's child. And at the boarding school where he stayed during the week they lived with 18 people. With ages 6-14 / 15 years. With him in the group and every night there was a different leader / leader
2. Father was skipper and mother was skipper / housewife
3. The inland vessel is difficult to map, but the boarding home was Stevensweerterweg 26, Maasbracht. 6051 GS 1. The fall of the Berlin Wall, that was November 9, 1989. My father was about 13 years old at the time. He was impressed because you always learned at school that East Germany was always very strict and that it was dangerous. And suddenly everyone was allowed to go wherever they wanted. Families were reunited. You didn't realize it that way at the time, but later you did. If you consider that the wall was built overnight and after the fall they could just get together again.
This is around 1990
1. It is difficult to say because in the family there were either boys or girls. But when he looks at the boarding school, everyone was equal. Everyone had to participate in simple household chores.
2. Yes.
• Everyone chose what suited him or her. At that time there were courses where more boys or girls attended. It wasn't that they weren't allowed to do the training back then, but it was mostly people's background. At that time, for example, technical courses that girls were going to take was on the way.
• When he looked at his class, girls were seen no differently. It is possible that teachers viewed it differently, but he does not know.
3. In inland shipping you saw a lot of men and women working together. You saw that women just did the household tasks and that men did the technical part. So sailing and maintenance.
• In general, my father thinks that women had a little less opportunity. Things did change during that time, but it was still crazy to see a woman doing a man's job. The change also accelerated during that period.
4. No. He is sure of that. That is something that has really happened in recent years. There is still a difference.
5. That has already been told. His father came in and lay down on the couch and his mother did the cooking and the rest of the housework.
• Sometimes his father would help with the dishes or with cooking, but that was not structural.
6. He thinks that women really like to be equal, but when it comes to the fact that they still want the man to solve it.
7. Yes, but he doesn't think it's really up to the government that women have started working more.
Interview Grandpa
I interviewed my grandpa. His name is Dirk and he’s 75 years old.
1. He lived with four people. His father, mother and his brother. So a standard family.
⁃ There also live 2 other families above and beneath them. They didn’t really have much contact with the family beneath them, but the other family used the same stairs to get to their apartment.
2. His mother was housewife and his father was an engineer fitter. So he was apart of a production line in a factory. His rank was little bit higher than other people, so he drew the spots where there needed to come holes.
3. Kokerstraat 11, in the neighbourhood Hillesluis, in Rotterdam.
⁃ That wasn’t the only spot where he lived. A big part of his childhood he spend in the Zierikzeestraat 49A, in the neighbourhood Pendrecht, also in Rotterdam. There he only lived with his parents and brother and they had a little garden and their own shower. Which was very special for that time in Rotterdam. It was also the first street in the area, which was a new housing estate. It did change a lot in the years.
4. The uprising in Hungary in 1956, because the Hungarians revolted against the Russians, but that was crushed, then a lot of refugees came to the Netherlands. My grandpa has a close relationship with Hungarian people, because he worked with many of them and he even gave my mom the nam Ilonka, which is a Hungarian name.
These answers are from around 1959
1. No, there weren’t any differences. You still had girls' schools, but they could also go to public schools. Only in the practical subjects did you have differences between boys and girls.
• They had no girls in the family, so it is difficult to compare.
2. Yes,
• There were minor differences, only in the practical world it was different.
• No, everyone was equal. They also had dance lessons at school. This was mainly because he lived in the city and everyone quickly went along with changes.
3. Yes there were differences.
• There were only women in care and in education and they were never in technology. Office work though.
• If you got married you had to quit your job and became a housewife. That lasted until the 1970s
• A man was more likely to be hired than a woman. A man was seen as a breadwinner.
• There were hardly any women in politics.
• Almost all managerial jobs were occupied by men, because the women had to take care of the children. And when the children were out of the house it was difficult to get a job again.
4. No
5. Women did all the housework, the children had to help.
• When men helped and others found out, they were called losers.
• My grandfather had a lot to do around 1959 because his mother was in hospital for a while and they had no other women in the family. But that was an exception.
6. It is now very much equal, in the marriage of my grandfather and grandmother it is. But they find that in other marriages of their generation, it is not emancipated. For example, my grandfather can cook, and many other older men can't. My grandfather and grandmother also do all the finances together
7. It has changed because the government stimulated and made childcare possible, giving women the opportunity to go to work. And that as a result, men could also more easily make a day off to spend time with their children.
• It was not just the government, because people started to think about how equality could be better, the government had to change things.
I am Marjolijn Kamerling.
Before my wedding my name was Marjolijn Groenendijk.
I lived with my parents and my almost 7 years older sister in a cozy neighborhood in a small terraced house. These houses belonged to the factory where my father worked. My father worked at the IHC shipyard in Kinderdijk. My father was a manager there.
The house where we lived was Alblasserdam in 58 Resedastraat.
A historical fact that I remember well is that a windmill in the kinderdijk caught fire and that the whole neighborhood was watching from their front lawn. That was on a Sunday afternoon. The mill was later rebuilt. It is now called the Blokkerse seesaw. That was not a worldwide event, but a huge event for me. What I remember better as a huge threat was the Gulf War. But when that happenedI was around 16 to 17 years old.
I also remember that petrol was very expensive because of the oil crisis and that my father was mad about it.
As for the question about differences between boys and girls: I have not experienced it that much. Everyone played with each other and my parents didn’t care about that. I didn't notice any difference at school either. We often played games with boys against girls in gym class. But that was fun
Differences between men and women with regard to work: My mother was a housewife and my father had a job, which was normal in the neighborhood I grew up in. I don’t remember any mother having a job.
Most of the women I knew and worked were not married, they mostly were teachers or maternity nurses. My father worked in a man's world with welders and steelworkers. There were no women among them.
I have no insight into the salaries of the men and women at that time. That completely passed me by.
women have similar roles in today's society. I have now become a manager myself. I feel equal to men in my work and not discriminated against at all. My salary is equal to male colleagues who has a similar position. If that were not the case, I would certainly talk about it.
The position of women has changed at the hands of the government. This is especially noticeable in the fact that 2 people with jobs in one household get more tax deductions. This certainly encouraged me to go back to work when my children grew up.
As for the household chores my father used to do in my youth, there were few. My father and mother and painted every room every year. They did that together. My father used to do the heavy work and paint the walls and my mother tidyd up and cleaned. My father used to run errands and sometimes he also vacuumed.
These were my answers to the questions. Kind regards from Marjolijn Kamerling.
Helga
58 years old
Female
Father’s profession: plumber
Mother’s profession: housewife
I was raised in zwijndrecht near the walburg college
She did not remember anny historical fact (but she dous like nasi)
The difrence between m/f: females where mostly at home doing things like laundry. But men where alowed to go outside and chop wood etc.
Diffrence m/f school: the only difference was that the men would go to the technical school where the woman would go to the doctors school.
Diffrence f/m job: females barely worked they did the housejobs like laundry. Males went to to jobs like work at the bank etc.
Salary: wimen did not have the same salary as men.
Woman did all the house work but they have gotten way more right over the years.
Topic: Gender related roles
Main question: have the relations between men and women changed with reference to education, roles and opportunities?
General questions
Name and age;
My grandmother, Female, Cobie van Kasteren-Polfliet, 88 years old
1. How many people were there in your parents’ family?
How many people lived in the same house?
Nuclear or extended family? Explain
2. What was the profession of your father / mother?
3. Where did you live with your parents (please add map - Google Maps).
4. Do you remember any historical fact / event when you were a teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) either in India or in EU or worldwide. Why were you impressed by that event?
1. Mother: 7
Father: 7
Nuclear families, they did not live with grandparents or aunts, etc.
2. Father: railway worker
Mother: house wife
3. Utrecht
4. World War II
Specific questions 1 – 5 are related to the time when the
people interviewed were about 14 years old.
1. Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?
- Was the relationship of boys and girls equal in your family? Yes / No.
- If not, which were the differences?
Yes
2. Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school?
- Were there differences in the kind of high school that boys and girls chose? Yes / No.
- Were girls considered in a different way from boys at school? Yes / No.
Yes, Either mixed school or boys/girls school
Never experienced differences
3. What differences were there between men and women with reference to work?
- Were there jobs for women and jobs for men? Yes / No.
- Did women and men have the same opportunities with reference to work? Yes / No. Why?
- What kinds of jobs did men usually have and were typically male jobs, and which ones typically female or didn’t it matter very much?
Yes
I guess so, at that age you didn’t really think about it I guess.
Men: plumber, electrician. Those were jobs women nowadays can do but at that time it was’nt common.
Women: house wife, office work
4.. Did women have the same salary as men?
No
5. How was household work divided among men and women?
- Did men help women in the household work? Yes / No.
- If yes, which were/are the main household chores the man did?
No
6. Do you consider women to be completely emancipated nowadays? Why (not)?
Yes, they are free to do whatever they want.
7. Has the position of women in society changed with the help of the government? Y/N If yes, how is it changed?
Not very clear if government had to do anything with it.
Topic: Gender related roles
Main question: have the relations between men and women changed with reference to education, roles and opportunities?
Topic: Gender related roles
Main question: have the relations between men and women changed with reference to education, roles and opportunities?
General questions
Name and age;
My father, Male, Quintin van Kasteren, 54 years old
1. How many people were there in your parents’ family?
How many people lived in the same house?
Nuclear or extended family? Explain
2. What was the profession of your father / mother?
3. Where did you live with your parents (please add map - Google Maps).
4. Do you remember any historical fact / event when you were a teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) either in India or in EU or worldwide. Why were you impressed by that event?
1. Mother: 4
Father: 5
They all lived in one house, nuclear families. It was just the parents and children living together. Not extended by grandparents or cousins.
2. Father: selfemployed
Mother: house wife
3. The first 8 years in Australia and then we sailed to Europe for seven years and lived for longer periods of time in Indonesia, Maledives, Israel, France and many other places.
4. No, I don’t.
Specific questions 1 – 5 are related to the time when the
people interviewed were about 14 years old.
1. Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?
- Was the relationship of boys and girls equal in your family? Yes / No.
- If not, which were the differences?
Yes, the relationship was equal in my family.
2. Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school?
- Were there differences in the kind of high school that boys and girls chose? Yes / No.
- Were girls considered in a different way from boys at school? Yes / No.
Yes, boys schools and girl schools or mixed schools.
No
3. What differences were there between men and women with reference to work?
- Were there jobs for women and jobs for men? Yes / No.
- Did women and men have the same opportunities with reference to work? Yes / No. Why?
- What kinds of jobs did men usually have and were typically male jobs, and which ones typically female or didn’t it matter very much?
No
Yes
It didn’t matter really
4.. Did women have the same salary as men?
No
5. How was household work divided among men and women?
- Did men help women in the household work? Yes / No.
- If yes, which were/are the main household chores the man did?
No
6. Do you consider women to be completely emancipated nowadays? Why (not)?
Yes. Woman can study whatever they like, can apply for any job.
7. Has the position of women in society changed with the help of the government? Y/N If yes, how is it changed?
No, I don’t see a direct link