What are the gender roles in late adulthood?

Answer 1

This can depend upon the relationship status of the person in question.

In a marriage, typically men are the workers who bring home money, they fix things around the home, participate in masculine activities such as football and Baseball (although these are not exclusively masculine activities). They tend to be the enforcer within the parenting unit as well and the overall protector of the family.

In a marriage, women typically care for the household, cleaning, cooking, tending the children, they often have a nurturing attitude (as opposed to the man's strong and disciplinary attitude). They will often be part of Scrapbooking, cards, or quilting clubs (although this is the tendency it is not a rule).

When the woman is single during late adulthood, assuming she has children, she will have to take over many of the characteristics typically held by men in order to control and manage her household.

When the man is single during late adulthood, he also carries many of the characteristics of the married man, but must also shoulder the responsibilities that typically go to women, such as cooking and cleaning.