Gender Roles

Gender Roles and Household Chores

Hey guys. It’s Dana, and today we’re going to talk about roles in your house and how they kind of change after you have babies. So Jim is putting away the groceries right now, and he actually does the grocery shopping in our family. He does the family grocery shopping, and it’s kinda weird because we used to sort of do this together before we had kids—and grocery shopping is sort of a traditional female role, but it’s something that he does. So there are somethings that he does that are traditional for a man, and that is taking out the trash, mowing the lawn… What else do you do Jim? 

I cook dinner for the family so that is very stereotypical female. I do the dinner. We take turns or do it together as far as bathing the children at night and getting them ready for bed. We sort of swap that out depending on who is even here at night because of our work schedules, but some nights when we’re both here we do it together –incomprehensible audio- because we have twins, so we put both of them in the tub and each gets a baby.  So having twins have sort of facilitated the necessity of both of us having to take on some roles that possibly we wouldn’t have done before.

So when we go places he always drives. When we go somewhere as a family he is always going to drive. I don’t know why that is… I certainly can drive. I have driven from Boston to Anchorage, Alaska, and I’ve done that trip twice. So it’s not that I don’t know how to drive. So let me know down the comments. What are some chores that maybe you do that are not stereotypical for your gender, and then also what your partner does that isn’t really typical. And I’ll talk to you guys in the next video. Thanks for watching! Bye.