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This document provides a 24-hour profile of a family consisting of 3 members - a 56-year-old mother, a 21-year-old daughter, and an 18-year-old son. It describes each family member's daily activities and responsibilities. The mother's main roles are managing household expenses and cooking meals, while the daughter and son help with chores and their own schoolwork. The author reflects on the traditional gender roles and division of labor in their family, with the mother as homemaker and father providing financially from overseas work. They feel motivated to pursue their own career dreams to support their parents in the future.

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Learning Activity 6 Template

This document provides a 24-hour profile of a family consisting of 3 members - a 56-year-old mother, a 21-year-old daughter, and an 18-year-old son. It describes each family member's daily activities and responsibilities. The mother's main roles are managing household expenses and cooking meals, while the daughter and son help with chores and their own schoolwork. The author reflects on the traditional gender roles and division of labor in their family, with the mother as homemaker and father providing financially from overseas work. They feel motivated to pursue their own career dreams to support their parents in the future.

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Learning Activity 6

Abigail Neri

Learning Activity 6: 24-hour Family Profile & Short Reflection (TEMPLATE)


Add columns if needed.

Hour Member 1 Member 2 Member 3


Sex: ___F____ Sex: ___F____ Sex: ___M____
Age: ___56____ Age: ___21____ Age: ___18____
12 am
 Study time
1 am
2 am
 Sleep time  Sleep time
3 am
4 am  Sleep time
5 am
6 am  Wakes up  Wakes up
7 am
 Feeds the chickens and  Eats breakfast
8 am  Wakes up
pigs  Sweeps the floor
 Eats breakfast
 Prepares for and eats  Washes the dishes
 Attends online classes/
breakfast  Attends online
9 am do assigned academic
10 am classes/ do assigned
 Leisure time (Watch workloads
academic workloads
movies or talk to  Does the laundry
neighbors) (weekend)  Does the laundry
(weekend)
11 am  Prepares for and eats  Eats lunch
12 pm  Eats lunch
lunch  Washes the dishes
1 pm  Siesta
2 pm
 Leisure time (Watch
3 pm
4 pm movies or talk to  Resumes doing  Resumes doing

neighbors), feed the academic workloads academic workloads

chickens and pigs


5 pm
 Prepares for and eat
6 pm  Eats dinner
7 pm dinner  Eats dinner
 Washes the dishes
8 pm  Leisure time (watch  Leisure time (watch
9 pm  Leisure time (watch
movies, surf the movies, surf the
news or movies)
internet) internet)
10 pm
 Sleep time  Study time  Study time
11 pm

I want to clarify why my output only consists of three members, for my father is an Overseas Filipino
Worker. He only goes home once a year and stays for a maximum of one month; thus, I opted not to
include him in this 24-hour family profile.
My family’s situation fits the classic story where the father is the family provider while the mother is the
homemaker. My mom's usual routine at home is managing the household expenses and cooking for our
meals while my brother and I share the household chores. Both of us are guilty of not exerting efforts on
learning how to cook, except for the basic cooking of rice, and we still heavily rely on our mom regarding
this. Indeed, the bulk of household work is done mainly by mothers, totally executing reproductive
activities from childbirth to daily upkeep and household maintenance and depicts how the stay-at-home-
mom situation is true among low-income households.

I sometimes wonder why my mom chose to be a plain housewife, although she graduated with a degree in
Arts and I assumed or either romanticized how she truly cared for our family. Learning this “gender
division of labor” topic opened my eyes to the difference between having to choose and have nothing to
choose – that she chose it because she has no other options, especially how social control defines what are
men or women’s occupations and not from their preferences.

I feel bad for her as she willingly conformed to these stereotypical reproductive activities and could not
follow her dreams, although I did not have the guts to ask her what her dreams were before and settle for
something like this. As a struggling yet passionate college student, reflecting on how my mom sacrificed
a lot to take care of us motivated me more to pursue my dreams and be successful soon.

As for the question, if there’s a need to redistribute the productive and reproductive tasks within our
household, I think I do not have the choice but to accept how these tasks work within our family, given
that my brother and I shares the same load of chores, as well as for my mom managing the home and my
father providing us financially. Both of my parents are nearing their elderly stage, and a few years from
now, there will have a shift to how things work here – I, the elder child, will be the next breadwinner of
the family, but not for so long since my brother will also be pursuing his career. I will be someone who
will look back and take care of them, thankful for the sacrifices and enabling us to experience some
privileges in life.

What I am looking for in the future is how I will be able to surpass these millennial-aged productive and
reproductive role stereotypes and not settle for what society offers me.

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