Your neighbors have three children and both parents work. Without fail, whenever there is a sick child in the family, the expectation is that the mother will stay home to care for the child. The mother is fulfilling a set of expectations called a gender:

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19 November, 10:24

Your neighbors have three children and both parents work. Without fail, whenever there is a sick child in the family, the expectation is that the mother will stay home to care for the child. The mother is fulfilling a set of expectations called a gender:

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Rayna Mccall · Answer 1

Gender role

Explanation:

Gender role is also known as Sex role. It involves the widely acceptable behavior, roles, dressing of a particular sex or gender. It is common for females to cook and take care of the home while the male gender is known to be suited to more tedious works and working as the breadwinner of the home.

Here, the female gender is known for taking care of the home and children. This made the wife stay at home and care for the sick child according to her gender based role.

Mylie Bradshaw · Answer 2

The mother is fulfilling a set of expectations called a gender role.

Explanation:

Gender roles refer to how each gender (male, female) is expected to act according to societal norms. This includes attitudes, conducts, likes, dislikes and way of dressing, amongst others.

In this case we can see that the mother is fulfilling the set of expectations from gender roles because it is accepted and generally understood by society that the woman is the one who has to take care of the children, before anything else.