Very important thread.
As matter of fact this subject falls into traditions category.
The society has drawn us a specific way of living, seeing people repeating it everyday makes you feel that's the way to happiness could be reached by:
Getting your degree > Find a decent job > Get married > Raise children > Get retired
Anything that is out of this is risky, weird and crazy.
The man role in life is to go to work and make living to the family and take decisions, the woman role is to raise the kids, clean the house and keep her husband satisfied.
Sadly, that's how things are.
The point here is that there's no strict holy jobs for every individual, it's either you want to live your life the way you want or live your life in the eyes of the others.
- Some men see it disappointing if their women have more income than them.
- Some people would even doubt a man's manhood if he shares taking care of the kids, clean the house and cook (marto 7ekmeto).
- A man asking his wife's opinion and plan together is "Mish rejjel, marto bet2arir" LOL
- A single man or woman aged 30+ is weird
- A successful woman is weird
- A divorced woman or man is weird
As you can see, everything that does not fit with the traditions is weird and the worse is that most people change their way of living to avoid "the tongues of the people" and prefer to go with the flow.