Who would have guessed?

WW: Households; Pg's. 22 & 23

While reading over the "households" article in the WW's book, I found it interesting that women are the head of the household by 85% in certain areas around the world, consisting of the women being the lone parent. It was also interesting to read, that more people are living alone, because of unmarried adults and elderly woman. I would have thought that the only reason women were the head of the house is if there was a significant number of single mothers in the United States, which is true for most households that are single mothers.

I noticed that most of the households that are strictly gay or lesbian couples are only on the coast across the Unites States. There are few if not any gay or lesbain couples on the inner states. I was thinking this could be because most inner states may be against gay marriages and do not allow couples to publicly show themselves.

Realizing that a number of households around the world have women running the house was a suprise to me since, i was taught that in other parts of the world, women have to be submissive to their husbands and males in general. There is a very high percentage of women who are head of the household in Euorpe, the United Kingdom, Africa and Brazil!

Many households around the world are shrinking in size, where most of Africa families average from 4 to 6 people and the US is fewer then 3.

I find this article to be interesting with all the information givin that this is a gender and power class, that in the US we usually learn that men of different countries are the ones in charge. Not, neccisarily in the US but around the world, women/females have very little say or no rights at all. Knowing that women around the world are gaining their own rights and freedom is another step in the right direction for other countries to recignize that women can and will prospure.