美語情景對話 第787期:Gender Roles in Estonia 愛沙尼亞的性別角色

Todd: So, Kadi, you are from Estonia. Can you talk about gender roles for the new generation compared to the older generation?

託德：卡迪，你來自愛沙尼亞。你能說說新一代人的性別角色與老一輩有什麼不同嗎？

Kadi: Yes, in Estonia, we have this kind of Western type of family, a woman doesn't have to be a housewife. She can work. She can do whatever she likes. Even maybe the tendency right now is that women are becoming more masculine. Often it happens that women make more money than men do and they're the ones who bring the bread in the house. Yeah, compared to Eastern society where usually women are considered as housewives. They just have to clean and cook and raise the kids, and in my country ... no ... there's not such a thing and I think it always has been like that. I'm not quite sure but.

卡迪：好，愛沙尼亞是西方式家庭，女性不必做家庭主婦。女性可以出去工作，可以做她喜歡的事情。現在的趨勢是，有越來越多的女性開始承擔男性的角色。有很多女性掙得比男性還多，承擔起養家的責任。在東方社會，女性基本上都是家庭主婦。她要打掃屋子、做飯，撫養孩子，可是在我們國家不是，我想我們國家的情況一直都是這樣。不過我不太確定。

Todd: Who does the chores like cooking and cleaning?

託德：那做飯和打掃這樣的家務活由誰做？

Kadi: Yeah, I think we all do it. We don't have that kind of rule that women only have to clean and cook. Of course in some families, it is like that because women are better cleaning, especially, rather than men are, but yeah, men are quite good cooks.

卡迪：我們都會做。我們沒有規定說女性只能做打掃和做飯的工作。當然在有些家庭，女性的打掃工作比男性做得好，不過男性做飯也做得很好。

Todd: What do people do for childcare? Like who takes care of the children?

託德：那照顧孩子呢？誰來照顧孩子？

Kadi: Nannies. Yeah. We have nannies for working mothers, they usually like hire people to watch over the children and just they play with them and also like kindergarten, like children start going to kindergarten in Estonia when they're really young, maybe from three months I think even, yeah, you can go to work when your child is like half-a-year old. Just go to work. Take a child there, and people are going to care about her.

卡迪：保姆。職場母親會請保姆，僱傭保姆來照顧孩子，和孩子一起玩，在愛沙尼亞，孩子們很小的時候就會被送去幼兒園，大概三個月左右的孩子就要上幼兒園了，在孩子6個月大的時候，媽媽們就可以開始上班了。媽媽們去上班，把孩子送去幼兒園，那裏有人會照顧孩子。

Todd: Is the nanny expected to cook and clean as well?

託德：保姆也要做飯和打掃嗎？

Kadi: It depends of on the contract. It depends on the contract. Yeah, if you hire a person who that you say you're gonna pay him or her, usually her, like for cleaning, cooking, taking care of the children, whatever, it depends on the contract.

卡迪：這取決於保姆和僱主籤的合同。這要看合同。如果僱主想僱傭負責打掃、做飯和照顧孩子的保姆，要在合同中註明。

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重點講解：
1. compared to 與…相比；和…比起來；
例句：Ferries are very powerful and manoeuvrable compared to cargo ships.
與貨船相比，渡船馬力大而且易操縱。
2. rather than 而非；勝於；而不是；
例句：They finally plumped for the new house rather than the old one.
他們最終還是選定要新房子，不要舊房子。
3. watch over 照看；照料；
例句：The guards were originally hired to watch over the houses as they were being built.
最初僱門衛是爲了看護正在修建的房子。
4. as well 也；還；
例句：She is not only good at mathematics, but she is interested in English as well.
她不但擅長數學，而且對英語也感到興趣。
5. depend on 取決（於）；有賴（於）；
例句：Our fees depend on the value of the trust.
我們的費用視信託金額而定。
6. take care of 照顧；照看；看護；
例句：He is fourteen, old enough to take care of himself!
他十四歲了，可以照顧自己了！