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To what extent do women still face obstacles and prejudices with regard to how they pursue recreation and spend their leisure time? Of the obstacles you identify as still relevant, why have they persisted?

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If I am understanding this, one of the most steryotypical expamples of women facing prejudice when it comes too free time is things like cooking and cleaning, or taking care of the kids. Another thing is how often they are judged if they try to do "fun" things, for exmaple, if they try to get a manicure or something like that people claim it is expensive and a waste of time. Another example could be something like shopping for personal items, with people normally seeing it as a "womanly" thing to do, not a manly

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What I mean by the first sentence, is things like coming home after work and being expected to do all of the things I listed when really all they want to do is just relax for the rest of the night. Most of the time they have to do these things, one, because no one else will if they don't, and two, they dont normally have time to try and get into hobbies or have lots of time for friends, because they would take too much time out of their day to do the important things that actually need to be done. Now, These obsticales are releveant, because you can't really just stop doing these things without having a horrible life, or dying. Making food for yourself is a must, obviously, and that is why these expectations have persisted. I know it is different for everyone however. Some families just make the kids do it because they are old enough, other families just have the wife cook while the husband cleans or something, there are lots of options, but I am basing this off the very steryotpical nuclear family, A wife, a husband, and one or two kids that are probably like 8 or something.

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