This document summarizes a study on gender roles and equality in Latvia. It finds that traditionally, women take on more household responsibilities like cleaning, cooking and childcare while men are responsible for tasks like farming and providing for the family. However, attitudes are changing as more women take on professional careers and single mothers must take on all family responsibilities. The document also examines gender roles and expectations in families, schools and government. It concludes that while traditional gender roles exist, being different does not mean being unequal and that an ideal society achieves harmony without discrimination.

1. Sigulda Town Secondary School

2.  We have investigated men and women, girls and boys in
different real life situations,and our task is to show how
equal or inequal we are.
 We gonna talk about gender roles in family, schools, in
professional career and politics.

3. 1.Who of the the family plan vacations,social of
4. Who in parents concerns the education
2. Who of the parents concerns the authority of
3. Who of the parents concerns the house
children?
arrangements,diners?
children?
chores/tasks,take care of the house holds?
0%
0%
11%
11%
30%
11%
33%
11%
0%
11%
0%
70%
67%
67%
78%
Both
Both
Both
Father
Father
Father
Mother
Mother
Mother
Other answer
Other answer
Other
Maybe it depends on the
gender or age of the children.

4.  5.What are the gender
 6.What are the duties of
obligations in Latvia?
Are there any specific
features that do only
men or only women?
 On average, women
make cleaning
chores, cook and look
after the children while
the man's responsibility
to farm work, family
provision.
Latvian single mothers?
Does the state provide
support and help?
 Single mothers duties
include everything that
need to be done with
both parents. State, of
course, provide
support, but it's not big
enough.

5. 1)Doctor
25
12
1210
8
10 20
6
8
4
15
62
40
2)Teacher
3) Psyholoque
4)Lawyer
1)Builder
Conclusion
2) Doctor
3)Police officer
5)Businesswoman
4)Seller
6)Seller
2 10
1)Doctor
2) Teacher
Professions
7)Journalist
0
where women
5
8)Other
Professions
dominate where men
dominate
0
Man
Lawyer
Businessman
9)Visagiste, hair stylist
Woman
Artist(painter, singer, actor)

6. 25
20
1).Guntis Ulmanis
15
2). Vaira VīķeFreiberga
10
3). Valdis Zatlers
4). Andris Bērziņš
5
0
The best president

7. The proportion of men and women in
the goverment.
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Man
Women
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.

8. Do parents expect from you more than from
Is there equal treatment between brothers and
your brother or sister?
Who do and try more in your family ?
to achieve something?
sisters
40
5% 6%
35
30
Yes,expect
Yes
19%
25
43%
20
15 46%
21%
10
43%
5
0
17%
Study achievments
No, don`t expectGirls
No
Boys
Parents expect even
It deppends on situation
things from us
I don`t have brother or
I`m the only child in the
sister
family
Out off class activities

9.  Beeing different does not mean inequal.
 In nature everyone and everybody has it`s role. We can
live without dominating, discriminating others.
 Women and men has their own role in life.

10. In UTOPIA man and women should live in harmony with
themselves, society and nature.