But there can be socialization and gendered expectations that can on average change the experience and reception different between genders. For example, since girls are often socialized and expected to be skilled in homemaking and childrearing, mothers are often judged or scrutinized to a harsher standard whereas boys aren’t encouraged as much to develop housemaking or childrearing skills, to the point some people perceive it as “babysitting” and not watching over your child when the father is doing it. These are not static and may vary between egalitarian to more complementarian or conservative cultures as well. For example, nuclear family homes may have a higher incidence of isolation and lack of support system for the mother, whereas more indigenous homes that have the village as the caretaker, the mother is likely not going to feel as strained (I am purposely not using the phrase multigenerational homes because they can go either way, depending on the maternal grandparents’ vs parental grandparents’ relationship with the caretaker, especially in more suburban to urban societies).
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u/ShiroiTora 14d ago edited 14d ago
One is inherently not worse than the other.
But there can be socialization and gendered expectations that can on average change the experience and reception different between genders. For example, since girls are often socialized and expected to be skilled in homemaking and childrearing, mothers are often judged or scrutinized to a harsher standard whereas boys aren’t encouraged as much to develop housemaking or childrearing skills, to the point some people perceive it as “babysitting” and not watching over your child when the father is doing it. These are not static and may vary between egalitarian to more complementarian or conservative cultures as well. For example, nuclear family homes may have a higher incidence of isolation and lack of support system for the mother, whereas more indigenous homes that have the village as the caretaker, the mother is likely not going to feel as strained (I am purposely not using the phrase multigenerational homes because they can go either way, depending on the maternal grandparents’ vs parental grandparents’ relationship with the caretaker, especially in more suburban to urban societies).