Switch of Traditional Gender Roles

In today's traditional gender roles, it is usually very unusual to see a stay at home dad and a working mother. The main reason for these stereotypical gender roles for society would be human’s innate want for the male sex to be the dominant sex. In this way, the men feel like they have to control many aspects of female’s lives, which also includes making the money for the family. They want to be the sex who makes the money in order to be the one who is in charge of the finances and the household stability. When people in society see those traditional gender roles switched, with the woman making the money and the man staying at home, it does not make sense in their mind and they usually do not agree with it.

This switch of gender roles has taken place with my friend’s uncle. He is not married and has no children but about ten years ago, he became the guardian of two of his sister’s children because at the time she was not able to take care of them because of her drug abuse problems. Because he is also a homosexual, many people thought that he was not fit for raising the two children. He did not work because he was slightly disabled but he was the only one who fed and cleaned for the children as they grew. When I first met him, I was confused because he was always in the kitchen and cleaning the house and at the time, I was used to seeing females in the kitchen. This switch of traditional gender roles was something new to me but I eventually realized that no matter what the sex of the individual is, they are always capable of doing anything they set their minds to.