Commonalities and Differences

What does a woman do in your culture? In my family, my mother was the queen, and does not know how to cook anything. Her job is to hang out with other women and maintain the family's network. I didnt know how to cook until I moved to the US when I was 17. My step-dad doesn't cook except for the holidays. Hongkong middle class women don't cook often and our maids from Thailand or Indonesia do all the cookings. 

These young ladies spend years to learn Chinese, cooking, and taking care of Chinese babies at schools that are supported by the maid agencies in Hongkong. They want to work in hongkong as a maid and make money and send it back home. Traditional women's roles are replaced by maids from other countries these days. In Hongkong, women do need to know how to cook or take care of babies. It is very common to see different women have different roles in a same culture.