Sex roles
Women
Colombian culture was center on male dominance and this has predetermined the goals of women. Machismo defines a woman’s role as a mother, and the traditional male-female relationship assumes that the woman puts her husband’s wishes before her own.
in upper class and some middle class families, women avoid working outside the home in order to preserve family status, honor, and virtue. Women from lower class and lower-middle class families often hold jobs outside the home or work in the fields to contribute to the family's subsistence, giving them a greater degree of equality. Many couples farm fields owned through the wife's family, and in this case it is difficult for a husband living with his wife's family to exercise control over the wife.
According to the latest study by the DANE , the importance of women in the labor market in Colombia is undeniable: 2 out of 3 women of childbearing age in the country worked in the last year. This proves that the role of the women has change.
Men
As a result of a colonial influence, Colombian society adopted a culture in which men occupy a dominant role within the community, this can be described as machismo. They provide the food and money to the livelihood of the family.
The role of the men nowadays is different respect to the city that we are looking for, in the Andina region the role of the men specially in Antioquia is still the same as after the Colonia, is a society in which the men has a dominant role (machismo), but in the capital of the city is notable that men has in some labors the same role as a women, even we notice that men actually are taking the responsibility of take care of their child and their houses, when women are the ones that work to provide the economic part.
Bibliography:
http://www.novaventa.com.co/article/show/rol-de-la-mujer-en-la-sociedad-actual
http://www.everyculture.com/Bo-Co/Colombia.html#ixzz40AHqkRRm
http://kdgarci6colombia.weebly.com/blog/the-roles-of-men-and-women-in-colombia