What does this excerpt reveal about gender roles? Read the excerpt below from “At the Hearth” by Laura Esquivel and answer the q
uestion that follows. And so, I was mortified to realize that my daughter wasn’t paying attention. Instead, she was staring blankly at cartoons, forsaking the hypnotic power of fire for that of the television; the memory of the tribe, for commercials. I was so shocked, I couldn’t speak! Thousands of questions robbed me of my sleep. What had happened? Where had I gone wrong? What kind of society had we created? What had we women achieved by leaving the home? Yes, we had won rights that belonged to us and we had earned recognition for our intellectual activity and a better place in the world, but with great sadness I was forced to accept that none of the revolutions we participated in had managed to create a proper system for the creation of the New Man.
A woman's role in a house wasn't useless, or Less important in any way than a man's job of Hard Labor for Pay. The Woman stayed in the house and tended to the Needs of the Children/Next Generation, in a way, that was more important than Money, if there was such a society, the woman's use at the time would be far more important. They got their "Equality" but they traded that for something else, and unfortunately, the kids aren't getting the attention they need anymore.
