Georgian families from my parent’s generation usually had a traditional family arrangement. In most families’ fathers are breadwinners and mothers are caregivers. Georgia has “Classically patriarchal gender relation.”
Most of the parents I interviewed were this way while they lived in Georgia. This meant that father didn’t have much time with their children.
Women “do much more routine and care work.. “
In Georgia in the formal employment sector “women constitute 47.5% and men 52.5%.”
The graph shows that in Georgia 37% of women are not working due to domestic responsibilities where men consist only 1% in that category.
One Georgian family I interviewed, Mark (41) and Anna (41), told me that while they were in Georgia she did not work and he did. Anna was staying home; she took great care of her so, cooked, cleaned a house she was a great caregiver. Mark was a construction worker; he was always away from home. Like me their son missed his dad. He had to grew up fast.
Like Mark and Meggie, another immigrant family, Henry (69) and Janice (63) had a traditional family roles back in Georgia as well.
References:
http://iknowpolitics.org/sites/default/files/24_425_824113_gender26society2008.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/imre.12147/full