A woman’s traditional role in their parent’s household is to do the chores, look after their father, and do only as she is told to prepare for marriage. Whereas a man can do whatever he pleases. If a man is born into the family, the mother and sisters of that boy would care for him. He would also become the heir of all the belongings of the father for example if the father had a farm, when the father dies that farm passes down to the son, if the father had money/gold, those would also be passed down to the son. …show more content…
In Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, the first paragraph states that ¨we learned that we have failed if we grew up to be but wives or servants.¨ (n.p). As repeated many times before, the women's only job is to become the man's servant, have his children, and take care of him as well as the sons and daughters. They were not to speak unless told to, they were to obey and treat him as she would have treated her