Let's talk a little about what the male gender role is, it is similar to the gender role, but it is not just about attributed characteristics like the gender role. For many decades, the term “stay-at-home dads” was unimaginable. In today's society, for every stay-at-home father, there are 38 stay-at-home mothers (Sociology, A Brief Introduction [262]). Along with the gender role in society, the actual role of men is slowly changing. With men working for women, it also shines a light on men who can now be accepted as stay-at-home dads, they go hand in hand. With men now being able to have different gender roles in society, they still feel the need to respond the way the male gender role in society should respond. For example, if a woman's profession is a teacher, she should not be too "sissy" (sociology, brief introduction), she should react to situations more severely, as a man should. The effect this also has on society is that women have to accept that men are capable of doing their jobs. For example, a man goes out clubbing and meets a woman who he claims is "a carpenter or something" because women just don't like nurses. In reality, men are not only capable of performing feminine jobs, but in doing so, they express multiple masculinities to society. These are men who have the