ld enough to work (Lancaster, 1992; pg. 139). Not only that, but when women started working more often, they felt that when they came home the parental chores should be split up more equally. Housework and child care, those were womens work. And some men are still like that. But now many mothers are rearing their sons with the expectation that theyre supposed to help out around their sons with the expectation that theyre supposed to help out around the house. And now, with so many women working, women are saying, Look, its not fair that I work on a job the same as you and then come home and do all the work at the house. And with new ideas about cooperation between men and women, there are more and more men who help with the housework and the children (Lancaster, 1992; pg. 176).I noticed throughout the book that the New Women of the revolution seem tired of the war, and as it continued through the book, less and less women were excited about the revolution because they were slowly losing faith as they watched their husbands and their sons go to war, thus being left with very little money, no job and many children. Life became very hard for them, men and women alike as the war dragged on; and soon some women such as Yolanda started to believe that the war was for nothing. Despair in Nicaragua is visible as Elvis responds to what Yolanda has just said when they are discussing politics. This is bad, very bad. Yolanda is very young to be talking this way- talking so very contra! I know a lot of people are tired of the war, but they know why we have a war. You should have seen Yolanda six years ago in the Plaza, on the Triumph, carrying a placard and shouting !Vive el Frente! But nowthis is bad, it is very bad (Lancaster, 1992; pg. 141).Since the revolution, men and women in Nicaragua had digressed from their traditional expectations and behaviors of gender roles. Moving away from machismo, men started focusing on bettering their country, h...
