PARENTS
1. Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?
All parents said that there weren’t any differences except for the fact that girls helped more in the household.
2. Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school?
Yes, all parents were treated equally at school. At one school boys and girls got divided but the education stayed the same.
3. What differences were there between men and women with reference to work?
Men and woman mostly had the same opportunities for reference to work. But most woman worked in the household or were teachers or nurses. Men mostly had the jobs such as management or doctor.
4. Did women have the same salaries compared to men?
No, woman didn’t have the same salaries as men, but some had lower paid jobs
.5. How was household work divided among men and women?
Woman mainly helped in the house hold, men usually worked in the garden or washed cars.
Conclusion: gender equality is getting better. Girls are getting more and more rights. Both boys and girls are treated equally at home and school. Gender equality at reference to work is getting better than before, but woman still don’t get the same salaries as men.
GRANDPARENTS
1. Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?
Yes and no. In one family the boys stayed up later because they had to go to work early, they also had more freedom. But in the other families there weren’t any big differences.
2. Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school?
Yes, boys and girls were seperated in class or even went to different high schools.
3. What differences were there between men and women with reference to work?
Yes, men especially worked on the office or did physical work; woman stayed at home with the children, men earned the living.
4. Did women have the same salaries compared to men?
No, men had a better salary.
5. How was household work divided among men and women?
Woman did most of the householding.
Conclusion: Boys had a head start at almost everything (home, school and work). They got better education and salaries. Some girls didn’t even go to high school because their parents thought that they wouldn’t need an education.
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Complete interviews.
Levi:
Parent: Claudia Ely
General questions
Give a short description of your family when you were a teenager.
How many people were in your parents family?
My whole family consisted of 23 people.
How many people lived in the same house as you?
We lived with 4 people in our house, my dad, my mom and my sister.
What was the profession of your father/ mother?
My father owned a car dealership when I was a teenager and my mom mainly was at home caring for my sister and I, but she also was a disabled caregiver.
Where did you live with your parents?
We lived in Weert. → → → → →
Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a teenageror in India or in EU or worldwide? Why has that event impressed you?
On the 1st of january in 1986 the Netherlands got an 12th province, Flevoland. I still remember it because it was very big news in the Netherlands.
Main questions
Grandparent: Marie-Louise Coolen
General questions
Give a short description of your family when you were a teenager.
How many people were in your parents family?
My whole family consisted of 28 people.
How many people lived in the same house as you?
We lived with 6 people, my mother, my father, 1 sister and 2 brothers.
What was the profession of your father/ mother?
My father had a plastic fabric and my mother was at home, caring for the children.
Where did you live with your parents?
We lived in Weert. → →→→→
Complete interviews.
Levi:
Parent: Claudia Ely
General questions
Give a short description of your family when you were a teenager.
How many people were in your parents family?
My whole family consisted of 23 people.
How many people lived in the same house as you?
We lived with 4 people in our house, my dad, my mom and my sister.
What was the profession of your father/ mother?
My father owned a car dealership when I was a teenager and my mom mainly was at home caring for my sister and I, but she also was a disabled caregiver.
Where did you live with your parents?
We lived in Weert. → → → → →
Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a teenageror in India or in EU or worldwide? Why has that event impressed you?
On the 1st of january in 1986 the Netherlands got an 12th province, Flevoland. I still remember it because it was very big news in the Netherlands.
Main questions
- Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?
- Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school?
- What differences were there between men and women with reference to work?
- Did women have the same salaries compared to men?
- How was household work divided among men and women?
Grandparent: Marie-Louise Coolen
General questions
Give a short description of your family when you were a teenager.
How many people were in your parents family?
My whole family consisted of 28 people.
How many people lived in the same house as you?
We lived with 6 people, my mother, my father, 1 sister and 2 brothers.
What was the profession of your father/ mother?
My father had a plastic fabric and my mother was at home, caring for the children.
Where did you live with your parents?
We lived in Weert. → →→→→
Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a teenager in India or in EU or worldwide? Why has that event impressed you?
The murder on John F. Kennedy, he was shot while driving trough Dallas.
Main questions
- Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?
- Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school?
3. What differences were there between men and women with reference to work? Almost all women stayed home to care for the children. The men earned the living.
4. Did women have the same salaries compared to men?
No, the men had a better salary.
- How was household work divided among men and women?
Jacco:
General Questions
Grandparent: Marlou willems/F
- They lived with 5 people in the same house.
- Father: representor of a big shop
Kerkrade
3. The historical fact that had a big impact was that the coal mines were getting closed.
Specific questions
Tijn:
Rob willems/M
1. They lived with 7 people in one house.
2. Father: and his father worked at the coal mines.
Mother: she was at home as an house women.
3. Eygelshoven
Specific questions
- No in this family there was no difference
- No the relationship were different
- Her father could do a lot more because he felt like the boss of the house
- Yes in this family they had the same rights of education
- Yes there were differences in the kind of high schools.
- She doesn’t now that because you had seperate schools for boys and girls.
- The man had most times more power then women. And the women was lower then the man also the women gets less paid.
- yes
- no, because back in the days when a man and women got married the women mostly needed to stop with there work.
- When you where under the lead of the government it was only for men like police, army and firefighters.
- No the men had a higher salarie.
- The women needed to do the household when the man was working.
- With their family the father helped with some things.
- The man in their family did the laundry.
- She hopes for yes because there are a lot of women in the world fighting hard for it.
- . she doesn’t know what happened in 2016.
Tijn:
Rob willems/M
1. They lived with 7 people in one house.
2. Father: and his father worked at the coal mines.
Mother: she was at home as an house women.
3. Eygelshoven
4. he doesn’t remember a historical fact.
Specific questions
General questions
Parent: Danny Moonen/F
1. there were 3 people in their family
2. father: was in the army
Mother: worked at the municipality
3.
Specific questions
- no between their family there was no difference between upbringing boys and girls.
- Yes in their family it was.
- Yes they had the same right in education
- Yes because the boys and girls had a seperate high schools.
- Yes because they thaught that it was more important for a boy to go to high school because he needed to work later.
- Yes there were difference with jobs.
- yes some especially in an office.
- No women had less chance.
- The men did all the physical jobs like working in the mines or a constructor.
- No the men had more salarie then thge women.
- The women did the most of the househoilding.
- No they didn’t help much in the householding.
- No because he thinks that the differencxe will bet here always because men and women have other caspacities.
- He thinks not because he hadn’t noticed that women got more things.
General questions
Parent: Danny Moonen/F
1. there were 3 people in their family
2. father: was in the army
Mother: worked at the municipality
3.
4. the berlin wall because it is a big peace of the European history.
Specific questions
Opinion of the people who were interviewed
Lotte:
Parent: Maarten Hansson/ M
General questions
1. Give a short description of your family when you were a teenager.
We lived in one house with 4 people, my parents, my little sister and me. We moved from Best to Ruurlo when I was 17.
2. How many people were in your parents family?
4: My parents, my little sister and me.
3. How many people lived in the same house as you?
4 people
4. What was the profession of your father/ mother?
My dad worked for the goverment, and my mom worked in the household.
5. Where did you live with your parents?
In best.
Specific questions
- Yes there was a bit of difference in upbringing of boys and girls.
- Yes the relationship of boys and girls were equal in the family
- yes they had the same rights in education at school
- No there were no differen in the kind of high schools between boys and girls.
- No girls weren’t considered in a different way from boys at school.
- No the men had a higher salary as the women
- The women needed to do the householding
- Yes the men help with some things in the householding
- The men helped with vacuuming and ironing
Opinion of the people who were interviewed
- Yes, women all over the world are trying to achieve that.
Lotte:
Parent: Maarten Hansson/ M
General questions
1. Give a short description of your family when you were a teenager.
We lived in one house with 4 people, my parents, my little sister and me. We moved from Best to Ruurlo when I was 17.
2. How many people were in your parents family?
4: My parents, my little sister and me.
3. How many people lived in the same house as you?
4 people
4. What was the profession of your father/ mother?
My dad worked for the goverment, and my mom worked in the household.
5. Where did you live with your parents?
In best.
6. Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a teenageror in India or in EU or worldwide? Why has that event impressed you?
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a really impressive event for me because it was torture for a lot of people for a very long time.
Main questions
1. Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?
I only had a sister so we were brought up equally.
2. Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school.
Yes. Teachers treated us all equally and there wasn’t any gender inequality.
3. What differences were there between men and women with reference to work?
There weren’t much differences, but women mainly went for jobs such as teacher and nurse, while men went for office jobs.
4. Did women have the same salaries compared to men?
No, women still don’t get paid the same as men do. The difference in the pay gap is 14%.
5. How was household work divided among men and women?
The household chores were divided equally among me and my sister.
Grandparent: Janine van Spreeuwel /F
1. Give a short description of your family when you were a teenager.
We lived in one house with my parents, my siblings and me. And we moved a couple of times.
2. How many people were in your parents family?
5; My parents, my brother and sister and me.
3. How many people lived in the same house as you?
5 people..
4. What was the profession of your father/ mother?
My dad worked as a librarian and had a huge collection of books and my mother worked at home and took care of us.
5. Where did you live with your parents?
We lived in Maastricht.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a really impressive event for me because it was torture for a lot of people for a very long time.
Main questions
1. Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?
I only had a sister so we were brought up equally.
2. Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school.
Yes. Teachers treated us all equally and there wasn’t any gender inequality.
3. What differences were there between men and women with reference to work?
There weren’t much differences, but women mainly went for jobs such as teacher and nurse, while men went for office jobs.
4. Did women have the same salaries compared to men?
No, women still don’t get paid the same as men do. The difference in the pay gap is 14%.
5. How was household work divided among men and women?
The household chores were divided equally among me and my sister.
Grandparent: Janine van Spreeuwel /F
1. Give a short description of your family when you were a teenager.
We lived in one house with my parents, my siblings and me. And we moved a couple of times.
2. How many people were in your parents family?
5; My parents, my brother and sister and me.
3. How many people lived in the same house as you?
5 people..
4. What was the profession of your father/ mother?
My dad worked as a librarian and had a huge collection of books and my mother worked at home and took care of us.
5. Where did you live with your parents?
We lived in Maastricht.
6. Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a teenageror in India or in EU or worldwide? Why has that event impressed you?
I remember that people in the street were the first to get a television, because those were really expensive in that time, and that we would go there to watch. All the kids in the street would sit on the ground in the living room. I was around the age of 12. It was really exiting to have a television in that time because it was a new soort of entertainment.
Main questions
1. Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?
My sister and I learned more about cleaning the house and cooking than my brother but that was about it.
2. Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school.
Boys and girls were separated in class, but I don’t remember being treated different than any boy apart from that.
3. What differences were there between men and women with reference to work?
A lot of women didn’t go to university and became a housewife, and men did the opposite. I studied art and became a art teacher at a school.
4. Did women have the same salaries compared to men?
No, women got paid less than men.
5. How was household work divided among men and women?
The chores in house that my sister and I had to do weren’t so different from my brother, but he was allowed to go out earlier.
I remember that people in the street were the first to get a television, because those were really expensive in that time, and that we would go there to watch. All the kids in the street would sit on the ground in the living room. I was around the age of 12. It was really exiting to have a television in that time because it was a new soort of entertainment.
Main questions
1. Were there differences in upbringing of boys and girls?
My sister and I learned more about cleaning the house and cooking than my brother but that was about it.
2. Did boys and girls have the same rights to education at school.
Boys and girls were separated in class, but I don’t remember being treated different than any boy apart from that.
3. What differences were there between men and women with reference to work?
A lot of women didn’t go to university and became a housewife, and men did the opposite. I studied art and became a art teacher at a school.
4. Did women have the same salaries compared to men?
No, women got paid less than men.
5. How was household work divided among men and women?
The chores in house that my sister and I had to do weren’t so different from my brother, but he was allowed to go out earlier.