GGRB28H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tropical Medicine, Primary Healthcare, Secret Affair
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Women migrate out of countries to work as nannies or other positions and send money back home. Some only visit their families about once a year for a month. Example is josephine who lives in sri lanka. Youngest children tend to show most distress. Unlike the first world employers most mothers can"t live with their family and support it so they migrate somewhere else to make money. Many women who have no male partners succeeded in a tough male world careers only by turning over the care of their children, elderly parents and homes to women from the third world. Sometimes younger daughter is drawn out of school to take care of younger siblings if no one else is around to take care of them. Pattern of female migrations could be consider worldwide gender revolution. In american women were the sole, primary or coequal earners in american families.
