There is currently a high percentage of women in the workforce, they no longer have to ask their fathers or husbands for money to buy what they want. In that case, economically they no longer need a man. One more reason that strongly affects the increase in age in which females mate or marry, which logically means fewer births.
Placing us in the twenties of the last century, the winds of change are blowing shyly for them in relation to their family role. The importance of traditional women’s domestic work is declining and gradually women are entering the Panamanian world of work outside the home, although this is still far from a mass movement, such as could be observed in the years after World War II. And here the role of the woman in the family is secretly changing in such a way that it creates a situation of discomfort for a significant part of the Panamanian people, who believe that leaving the housework has harmed the stability of the home. and confiscation of property.
Credit has been placed fashion in Panama The desire to make as many new, shiny, imported goods available to builders as possible Panama Canalcoming from all over the world, an example of prosperity and abundance seen in canal zone, Many found it tempting and gradually abandoned the thrifty customs of the time of the union with Colombia.
A fact that today, in our Panama, does not cause surprises, but it was a novelty and a controversy in 1922 when some women went to work in the office. “Ña Gregoria”, a fictitious character from the newspaper “El Ají” who represented a lady from the popular class who longed for the times union with Colombia. She complained about women working in offices because she thought it was a man’s job.
Panamanians entered unknown fields in the world of work, in search of independence, imitating the “gringes” of Channel zone. This reflects a radical transformation of his traditional role, which at the same time created good for him, It was also the reason for bad times. Let’s remember that at that time, the vast majority of women in Panama, with their own families, were still housewives.
The patriarchal family model in our country is mainly represented in Hispano-mestizo “cholo” type, predominantlyas part of Spanish heritage.
This was also the case in the 20s of the last century, and to some extent we can say that this hierarchization continues with all the influences that modern currents have given it. However, the contribution of the blacks was strong and today the matriarchy is revealed as more influential in the direction of the Panamanian family, since the role of the woman as the boss in that environment is more obvious. Both in the Afro-colonial group and in the Afro-Antillean group. What could be the consequence of such an unusual fact?
Let’s remember that Panamanian groups of mestizos enjoyed much more freedom and longer than, for example, blacks, while the inhabitants Villa de los Santos could cultivate and dedicate themselves cattle have an economic benefit in freedom, blacks were slaves. They had little control over their lives and over their family, it was difficult for a black man to show himself as the leader of the family, when he himself was owned by someone else, which was humiliating.
On the other hand, “cholo”, no matter how poor he was, was at least free, u the feeling that someone else did not legally own it. During the colonial period, society was made up of castes where you were expected to marry people of the same nationality, this was especially true for whites, whether they were peninsular Spaniards or Creoles, because that was how they maintained their prestige, however this ideal model clashed with the reality of what was lived in Panama, where they were a dearth of white women and an abundance of Indians and black. Panama, with its lush vegetation and heat, seems to have created an environment suitable for fornication. It is necessary to dig deep into the past to explain many current family situations and the spread of free unions. So cultural in Panamathe formalization of the union of couples by marriage is not so important, with more emphasis on the common classes.
Source: Panama America
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