I believe that Isabel Allende expressed of a good way the problem of gender roles in the society, how the women are underrated in the society just because they are women, because the society have the conception that women are inferior than men, and it is something that we must change as society, and as country.

In Chile we have advanced in this topic but there situations that we must change, I can say that in general, men and women have the same opportunities of jobs but we don’t have the same salary because the people yet have the conception that the women are inferior than men, sometimes the companies prefer don’t give job to young women because they can get pregnant and it is not convenient to the companies, and I believe that it is unfair, having children not make us less than men and women we can do the same thing with or without children.

By other side, in Chile sometimes there particular situations that show us that the machismo is a problem yet present, aren’t many situation but we can’t deny that it exist. This situations are commonly by jealousy which finish in big problems.

Maybe as society we ignored that sexism is present, but I believe that is something that is present every day in the life, in little thing like when we say that the girls can’t play with cars or boys can’t play with dolls, or in common situations in our house; for example when the grandma gives the dinner to the grandpa first than the rest, well, some situations that we learned since we were kids…

Well, today this are different than years ago, the society change and the way of think change, in my opinion the sexism isn’t strong like years ago but lamentably it is present in the society, the change being with us, we can make the difference for a good society .