https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r How are male children treated in the Malawian family as compared to the way female children are treated? What does that tell you about the Malawian culture? In general, are male and female children in the U.S. treated differently from each other? You need to answer all three questions. MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR FIRST NAME AND LAST INITIAL en-us 2019-03-28 18:49:03 UTC 2025-10-31 21:23:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347579272 1) The difference of male and female is that males are respected more than females because in the book they men beat women for there food as they walked by and took it. I think it was either nisma or flour. Woman get treated not as nice and they have to try to keep the family together and occupied as well as make food for the family while the males have to provide for them to have food.
2) That tells me that the Malawian culture is completely different than how we do such things here in America.
3) Male and female children are 100% different from each other from Malawian children compared to us American children because they have to help provide food for the family by getting the crops out in the field and they have to walk themselves (not that kids don't do that here but I mean that they have to walk a couple of miles to get to school) and the parents let the kids walk in line to get the flour or nisma. Where in America we have cars to get from place to place and we have people to walk with like our parents to get to school if we are walking but the kids have no one to walk with but their friends (if any) and we have to do chores in the house but we don't have to go in fields and pick crops one by one so I think it's completely different compared to the American life/way.]]> 2019-04-02 12:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347579272 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347583183 In the Malawian culture there is a big difference between male and female children.For example the male children work on farms while the female work in the house.Another difference is how they are married.In order to marry the male has to pay his bride's family. While the she has to get older men in her family to meet with her soon to be husband's. I think that definitely shows how the culture is very traditional.I think male in female children are treated differently in the U.S. Not so much as in the way of the Malawian culture. They are treated differently on the way of rules and things they learn. By this I mean females have rules they have to follow such as a stricter dress code.]]> 2019-04-02 12:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347583183 10256261 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347583261 In the Malawian culture the boys are different from the girls for a lot of reasons. One way that boys are treated differently is that Williams father gave his sister a good education. William, was not taught that much and worked on his farm very hard and ran errands for his family a lot. Another different they were treated was that the boys and girls always ate in different rooms until William's families food supply ran out.]]> 2019-04-02 12:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347583261 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347717380 I think male and females were treated differently. Male children would help their fathers work on the farm to support the family. Especially when the weather conditions have not been good and it hasn't rained in a long time. Females would help their mother do their house chores. Males would sacrifice their time and the energy they have to keep their family alive. Women also played a big role in surviving the hardships. They would need to support and encourage the children who might be suffering terribly. This tells me that men were the ones using the body, physical strength to support and lift up the family and the women were the ones who used words and encouraged, kind of helping the men in some way, to keep up with their work. So I think men had a more harder time to raise up the family during the hardships. In conclusion, the Malawian and the American cultures are very different. The females in America these days, usually work just as hard as the men and also work for the same reasons. In America both women and men CAN play the same role in life but in the Malawian, it was mostly men doing most of the work. ]]> 2019-04-02 16:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347717380 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347853773 In Malawi, the male children are generally treated worse, as while the way woman are treated is mildly inconvenient, the men work day and night trying to provide for their family and others, paying money, making a good reputation, and having to do more work overall and are generally outcasted when unable to fulfill this. These attributes are way different in America, as until around the time Susan B. Anthony and other activists came around, women had less rights then men majority of the time.]]> 2019-04-02 22:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347853773 893798 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347864952 In the Malawian family, the male children are treated worse than the female children because male children have to go through hunger while working early on the farm. On the farm the male children have to help their dads in working too and they have to go to the farm everyday despite the weather conditions. Male children have to eat with their father and make them separated from the females. They also have to help or provide for the family to get some sort of food. For example, in William' s case he wakes up at 4 am in the morning just to work on the fields/farm and one time he went on his bike to far distance place to nsima for his family. For female children it's also really hard for them as they have to help their moms cook and preparing food for the family but they usually get to work at home. Female children have to eat with her mother so they are seperated from the males. For example, Agnes prepares corn porridge to help her mom and try to prepare some food for the family. Their culture is really conservative, it's really traditional. In general, the male and female children are both treated equally in the US because our rights and the way we are treated are protected by laws but in Malawi they don't have laws yet so they can't control how people are treated.]]> 2019-04-02 23:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347864952 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347867813 There is a major differences in how females and males are treated in a Malawian family. I feel that men have a lot of work to do, but woman have just as many jobs to do. Men normally have to provide for the family and work in the farms day and night. As for the women, they have to help there mother with many things. For example, house chores, children, and they even sometimes have to work in the farm. Also woman are not seen as strong and brave as men are. Women are seen as people who are meant to just cook,clean,and take care of the children. While on the other hand men are seen as the person who are "rasing" the family. But here in merica it was generally the same thing in the 20th century. But now woman are seen just as strong,brave, and independent as men are. This is because of what all those women before us who fought for women's right and stuff like that.]]> 2019-04-02 23:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347867813 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347876235 In the typical Malawian family, the male and the female  children are give very different and specific roles. The males are usually farmers helping their fathers on the plantation, and are the ones whom the family is relying on in order to eat.  The female children  don't have as much work to do outside the house.  The male children usually go to school if their family has the money.  The female children almost never go to school.  They must help with housework.  That goes to show that the Malawians culture is more old fashioned.  It is a bit like colonial America.  In the U.S. both male and female children a mostly treated the same. They both go to school. They both have to help around the house too.]]> 2019-04-03 00:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347876235 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347882846 Male children are treated differently than the female children in a Malawian family because the children are expected to do jobs to help out the family but is specified by their gender is. For example, a male child will be expected to work on the farm and help the father with the food, etc. Rather than for the female children, who have to help their mothers out with the grain, the cleaning around the house and the cooking.This tell me that the Malawian culture is a little strict and not what we children in America are used to. Most children in America don't work only on chores or do separate work than the male children. In America females and males are equal and don't get easier or harder chores because of our gender.]]> 2019-04-03 01:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347882846 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347891016 In a normal Malawian family males and females are treated differently. For example a males expectations would be to work on farms day and night as well as helping their fathers find food. A females expectations would be to help their mothers in the house to clean and cook. This tells me about the Malawian culture that it is very traditional, old, and strict. Compared to an average life of an American child, we are not use to being gender discriminated into different labor jobs. In America female and male childs have equal rights. Because of that female and male children do not get seperate chores to do as they do in a Malawian family. ]]> 2019-04-03 01:46:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347891016 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347901452 Kayly N.
The structure of the household in Malawi is very traditional and old fashioned. Women are not perceived as strong or vigilant, and cannot be the matriarch of the family or fight for the village’s safety. Men are viewed as the strongest and will provide for the family. It’s the colonial “housewife and strong man situation”.
The woman stays at home and takes care of the children, while the men are the source of the income. Since these rules for adults are set, children will generally follow the same gender rules. Females will follow the mother and learn how to make food for the family while keeping the household intact. Males will provide for the family, be seen as stronger and hunt or farm, whichever way they can support their family. Respect is a big ideal that should be given to everyone, but unfortunately the females don’t have that. Males get the chance to prove their honor or worth or whatever, while people will just walk over a female. Females are given harder duties in my opinion, as they have to keep the household together and manage being a matriarch but nobody actually treating you like one. Instead, someone will go take your food. That makes me conclude that the Malawi culture is not very fair and doesn’t treat each gender equally. For males and females in the U. S., there are still gender divides. For one, boys are supposed to be better at sports or anything athletic, likely having to do with the strong man requirement in the Colonial days. Girls sit back and have to be girly, like the color pink or whatever. As a result from those early expectations for us, women are still treated with less respect and we are not taken seriously. We didn’t even gain the right to vote till the 1920s, wheareas men didn’t even need to fight for their right to vote. We also are not expected to be businesswomen or some sort of successful career, as those early expectations dictated we shouldn’t. Boys don’t even have to fight for their right if having equal rights. Even the average male salary is higher than the woman’s, also likely from the whole, we are housewives, we stay at home and cook thing. The not having a flourishing career as adults thing affects us as children. We stray away from STEM subjects and sports. In America, it may be better, but we certainly do not have equal rights. So yes, in general kids are treated differently according to their gender. Sometimes you don’t realize it, but you can tell when someone expects you can’t do something. Plus how all of us already have these rules in our heads of what we should and shouldn’t be, leads us to treat ourselves and others differently.

]]> 2019-04-03 02:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/347901452 1033964 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/348030107 Varun Katuri]]> 2019-04-03 12:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/348030107 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/348064647 Malawian culture is very traditional because the boys and girls have different jobs.  I don't think that Malawian culture had changed much over time since their way of life seems old. Males like William have to work in the fields, but females cook, clean, and take care of small children. I believe that even though there are different jobs, they are still equally difficult. In the US, genders are treated differently, but not as much as in Malawi. Only males can go to school there. I think that maybe if the government had more money for schools, girls would be able to go too.]]> 2019-04-03 13:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/348064647 https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/355093620 In Malawian culture young boys are expected to work in fields and harvest plants with their fathers, while young girls work more on housework such as cleaning and cooking food for their families.]]> 2019-04-29 16:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstyn_egan/tkpqk3ck934r/wish/355093620