The Filipinas interviewed in the article ““We Don't Sleep around Like White Girls Do”: Family, culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives”, stated that their role of woman is to stay at home and become good wives for one's husbands. A woman shares her experience of growing up as the only girl in her family and having to clean the house because her mother wanted her to be the perfect housewife. Filipinos throughout the article refer to their family as united, that as a collective they care for each other, they are closely involved within their family and community. Another woman mentioned in the article decided to pursue a doctorate in nursing, breaking the norm of Filipino culture, stating that “all the connection steals parts of me because all my energy is dedicated to my family.”(424) However , breaking the cultural norm that a woman's place is in the home is not easy because women and men have different standards. The standard of the Filipino man is to work, get a higher education, have the freedom to go out and