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E-Tone™: Ulpan-Or Weekly News Digest

Item #1 (Advanced Level)

Family or Career?

Over a decade ago, for equality’s sake, Mother’s Day became Family Day.
But even in two thousand seventeen, huge gaps are revealed between
mothers and fathers in the ratio between career and family. In a
widespread poll by the AllJobs website, piercing findings speak for
themselves. Fifty five percent of men admitted that the responsibility of
raising the children falls on women. Michal Na’aman is an English
teacher, but before everything, she decided, by choice, to be a full time
mom for both her children and pass on a job promotion. Forty percent of
men will come home at seven PM, as opposed to just seven percent of
women. Riki Chen and her husband, parents of four children, decided that
they won’t be like most couples and the burden will be (divided) evenly
between them. Sixty seven percent of women feel like their career was
held back more because of the expanding of the family, against just thirty
eight percent of men. Only thirty seven percent of women bring the main
salary to the household. Despite the data, which unequivocally show a
piercing lack of equality between men and women, it turns out that there’s
still place for optimism, “Already today, in our generation, things are
much better than for our mothers’ generation, and even (better) than or big
sister’s generation. It’s a trend that will only increase as Generation-Y
people take more and more key roles in the employment world.”

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