“Men build houses, women build nests”. This adage, although there are still many controversial opinions about the imposition of gender roles, in terms of equality among members, it shows that for a family home, both women and men must all contribute to the organization of life. Women and men, especially adults with income, carry out main family care activities such as taking care of children and the elderly; arranging housework; Establish development plans for members and families.
Men earn money to contribute to the family economy.
Men take part in taking care of children and the elderly. The role of fathers in educating children is very important, especially in shaping the personality and personality of boys as well as being a mirror image of men in society toward girls.
The concept of Vietnamese people often emphasizes the role of women in housework and family management. Considered the keeper of the "key box", a woman arranges and organizes family life according to family circumstances and the needs of members. Meanwhile, society often considers the man who "measures the fish sauce, counts the onions and cucumbers" as a miser or too meddling in women's affairs.
As the organizers of the material life in the family, women not only manage and run the household chores, but they are the main and direct participants in those jobs: cleaning the house, doing the laundry, trying to go to the market, organizing nutritious meals, ensuring the health of family members... When it comes to the role of women, grandparents have the sentence "men and women in the house", "without men around the house, without women alone in the kitchen". Indeed, it is a fact that from the past to the present, regardless of the historical period, the housewife role of women has been valued and affirmed.
Women are the ones who carry the keys and decide to spend everything in the family, from shopping, cooking and washing to cleaning, decorating, arranging, shopping... It is an odd, meticulous job that takes up a lot of time but cannot be missed. The woman has arranged and organized her family according to her thoughts, perceptions, and dynamism. In addition, women have an important role in regulating family relationships. Compared with women, men have many incomparable points. Because they do not have the same virtues as women. Every day, after a busy and tiring working day, men need a cozy space, a place to rest, and family plays this important role. Besides clean and obedient children, they also need to have delicious meals, need to see a tidy house, and especially a gentle wife who takes care of her husband's parents as well as treats them with kindness. Being gentle with her husband's family will disappear all worries and hardships. All of the above work depends on the woman's character. To regulate family relationships requires the virtues of courage, tenderness, sympathy, hard work, and sophistication in women.
As the organizer of the family's material life, the woman must first of all take care of well managing the family's regular and irregular income sources; make plans and implement plans on revenue, expenditure, and savings of those income sources; make full use of the family resources; assigning labor to members in a reasonable manner, while promoting their potential and creativity, ensuring the health of members and ensuring gender equality in the division of labor; at the same time know how to coordinate resources to meet the needs of family members.
Today, despite the development of science, the increasing material and spiritual life have created conditions to free women from housework to participate in social activities, however, the housewife's role Because of that, women do not fade away, on the contrary, they are given more attention and higher requirements, especially women need to have a plan to organize a happy and warm family life under their preferences. family members with delicious meals, in an intimate atmosphere, for members to have enough health to study and work.
On the other hand, a woman also contributes to supporting her husband's success in life. At work, there are times when the husband fails, and loses his will and spirit, the wife, in addition to completing the family work, must sympathize, skillfully encourage her husband, and create all favorable conditions for the husband and wife. Her husband regained confidence and gained the strength to overcome the storm. Those are the manifestations of wisdom, maturity, bravery, and culture in women.
The next question is when do we start to organize family life and how will we do it? The foundation of the art of organizing family life must be seriously discussed in the process of the couple's understanding and progress.