To what extent are traditional gender roles in the home changing? Account for any social and geographical variation in these changes.

It has long been recognised that men and women have significant differences, physical, social, emotional and intellectual. The roles they take on in regard to family life are, or have been in the past, directly dictated by their gender. Men and women are involved in roles in almost every aspect of life, from the social groups they join as children, to which position that they will potentially fill within a home. In conjunction with roles, we are expected to take a certain behavioural pattern. We have come to label this behaviour within stereotypes of the typical father ‘the provider’ and mother ‘the domestic labourer’ in post or pre industrial families. I shall be mainly focusing on western families as western gender roles differ somewhat to eastern traditions. Although these roles are fairly clear cut and socially reproduced, it is fair to say that each generation are to some extent forces these roles to evolve to better suit the social and cultural climate. This essay will se...