"Reproductive labor includes activities such as purchasing household goods, preparing and serving food, laundering and repairing clothing, maintaining furnishings and appliances, socializing children, providing care and emotional support for adults, and maintaining kin and community ties."
While they are working hard with their employers, they are still working in their home especially those mothers who have children. They are expected to keep an eye with their kids, serve their husband and children, do the housekeeping, cook and do the laundry. There is only little time for rest.
The church believed that women especially Chicanas should satisfy and serve the priests and not only that they should be submissive to their husband. They should remain in the house and keep it safe, clean and in order all the time.
Chicana/Mexican were not allowed to become a leader, they cannot rule any organization especially in politics because they look at them as weak and unable to handle complex situation. Men lack respect with the Chicanas because as soon as they join any organization they are taught that Chinanas are only good in bed, can only do clerical works and will only be the right hand of men and nothing more than that. Based on the online source, http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/docs/chicanas/women.htm:
When a freshman male comes to MECHA [Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan -- a Chicano student organization in Californial he is approached and welcomed. He is taught by observation that the Chicanas are only useful in areas of clerical and sexual activities. When something must be done there is always a Chicana there to do the work. "It is her place and duty to stand behind and back up her Macho!"... Another aspect of the MACHO attitude is their...
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