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Research Journal of the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka- Rohana 11, 2019

i. Gender relations on rearing and protecting children within family units.

ii. Gender relation on the workload in the family kitchen.

iii. Gender relations about the cleaning work of the residing home and its

compound.

iv. Gender relation on washing of cloths.

Husband’s contribution towards the nourishing and protecting children of the
family units in keeping with the gender relationship.

Nourishing and looking after children means feeding small children and looking into

their needs, washing, and cleaning them, be on alert for their security etc. Women of

the families of Rejjipura and Badungoda with school age children made their
response as depicted below. By this, it will be possible to find out the exit from

traditional opinion of considering women as only ‘wives and mothers.

According to these data, husbands of these villages who have contributed very

seldornly or not at all on the above gender relation theme show a high percentage of
73% for Rejjipura and 58% for Badungoda. However, gender relationship based on

traditional foundation has not been subjected to considerable change. “Whereas the
husband supply food for the family the wife takes care of the family” (Jayewardene

and Gunarathna, 2010:29) this idea is confirmed through these villages.

Anyhow Badungoda village exits in some higher progressive strata. This aspect has
been revealed from the women who rated their husbands as good or very good in

their education level.

Rising of the education level among people is a significant feature in global society.

This is confirmed and proclaimed by the universal charters within the globalization
process. As per the above table, gender relations become satisfactory along with the

increase of educational level among husbands.

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