Japanese society: Gender I knew it, understand it and got used to experience it, but was still shocked about it. My father is already nearly 60-year-olds. He does not need to go for work anymore, but does not know what to do without his work (which made me so sad.) He comes back to home from his work around 7 pm. The first thing to do is to sit down in front of TV, switch it on and start browsing his computer until my mother calls him for a dinner. After he takes a dinner, again goes back to his usual position; in front of TV. On weekend, he enjoys going out for fishing, and riding motorbikes. He cannot make any meals and never spend time doing houseworks. My mother, she comes back to home at around 6 pm. She starts preparing a dinner, and try to make it as efficiency and fast as possible before my father comes back. Otherwise, he might be very angry. She prepares all dishes from breakfast to lunch box for him, even she works outside as equal as my father does. When I was around 10 years old, when my mother asked him to help houseworks, he made furious and broke all the dishes in my house. And it happened many times, so she never be against him. She spent the whole weekend doing all houseworks and taking care of me and my brother. This made her to have less hobbies. Without doing houseworks, she now does not know what to do for free time because she never had much free time. (again which made me so sad.) I would say my father is not mad and not unusual in Japanese society unfortunately. Just after the 2nd world war, this is a very typical picture of Japanese family. I did not realise it until spending time outside Japan, but once coming back to Japan, this kind of experience naturally happens in any places at both work and home. I would say they are innocent and naturally do it without any intentions. That's why this is a serious challenge. The key point is everyone has the same chance to do what they want. It should not be determined based on their gender.