Gender Roles on labor and Households

Gender Roles on labor and Households. In the prototype of the patriarchal nuclear family, gender division of labor is well entrenched: The father-husband-provider role of the adult male is coupled with the mother-housewife-caretaker role of the adult female. Children are taken care of, go to school, and eventually leave the household to establish their own families, at times maintaining living arrangements with the older generation in extended family households.