While gender roles have changed since Cuba's 1959 revolution, inequalities persist among men and women in private life, and young people are both accepting that and breaking with it. The burden of the household falls on its female members, Guerrero, director of the Centre for the Study of Youth (CESJ), deplores. Worldwide, women devote at least twice as much time as their partners to domestic chores, according to the United Nations report "The World's Women 2010: Trends and Statistics". Having inherited women’s emancipation as part of the Cuban Revolution, some of today’s young people nonetheless had a sexist upbringing. The reproduction of female and male roles may be seen in many situations, adds Ana Isabel Peñate, also a researcher with the CESJ.
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While gender roles have changed since Cuba's 1959 revolution, inequalities persist among men and women in private life, and young people are both accepting that and breaking with it. The burden of the household falls on its female members, Guerrero, director of the Centre for the Study of Youth (CESJ), deplores. Worldwide, women devote at least twice as much time as their partners to domestic chores, according to the United Nations report "The World's Women 2010: Trends and Statistics". Having inherited women’s emancipation as part of the Cuban Revolution, some of today’s young people nonetheless had a sexist upbringing. The reproduction of female and male roles may be seen in many situations, adds Ana Isabel Peñate, also a researcher with the CESJ.
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