Question

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

Answer 1

Answer:  

role                                                                                                                

Explanation:

Gender role: The term gender role is defined as a phenomenon according to which a particular society differentiates between the appropriate values, behaviors, and attitudes related to male as well as female.

In a particular society, women and men carry an entirely different or opposite role, for example, women are considered as the caretaker of the family as well as home and therefore men are considered as the provider of his or her family.

In the question above, the mother is fulfilling a set of expectations called a gender role.