Cross cultural understanding: a handbook to understand others’ cultures

participation in the labor force. Moreover, advanced 
technology also influence the role of women outside the 
house.
Couple of decades ago, women spent many hours a 
day for doing household chores. It made them less time 
for working outside or having work. With the invention 
of advanced life tool, such as washing machine and 

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microwave, women can save time for doing her work, 
besides household chores. They have time to go outside 
and do their things, meet friends, even become career 
women. They are working not just in clerical position, 
but in the profession and trades as well. It is more 
common to find female engineers, doctors, lawyers, and 
other professionals.
The fact that more women are working has 
implications for male-female relationship. More women 
are earning money and are therefore in a position to 
assert 
their 
independence. 
Traditional 
female 
responsibilities in the areas of childcare and household 
chores are being reallocated. Men now are doing things 
such as washing clothes in Laundromats, cooking, 
cleaning the house, and taking care of the children.