Let's talk a little about what the male gender role is, it is similar to the gender role, however it is not simply assigned 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 society's gender role, the actual male gender role is also slowly changing. With men working with women, it also sheds light on those men who can now be accepted as stay-at-home fathers, they go hand in hand. Men who may now have different gender roles in society still feel the need to respond how society's male gender role should respond. For example, those who carry out a female job as a teacher must not be too much of a "sissy" (Sociology a brief introduction), they must react to more severe situations, as a male 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 claims to be "a carpenter or something" because women just didn't like nurses. The reality of men not only being able to carry out female jobs, but in doing so they express multiple masculinities to society. These are the men who have the