"THE stereotypical Gender roles"
From whatever I've understood about the human society and its evolution over millennia, here are my two cents. Long long long time ago, when there was nothing like a man and a woman, there was only a biological male and a biological female, and the human mindset was not as sophisticated as it is today. There is a fair possibility, that in those circumstances, the tasks of day to day life weren't fixed for male and female, but instead, both of them attempted all of the tasks. With time, it was understood, that one group was good at one set of tasks, and the other group, was good at the other set of tasks. When the human society, as it was then, realised this truth of male and female being good at different sets of tasks, those tasks, as a matter of convenience, were fixed for the two. What we today, see as stereotypical mindset or way of thinking, is actually not a blindly developed stereotype, but an outcome of natural evolution process of human society over thousands of years,...