This stereotype is used to legitimize the fact that some duties are allocated predominantly, when not
exclusively, to women, and others to men. This fact, which is referred to as 'sexual
division of labor', is considered to be rigid and universal. However, the division of
tasks and duties differs first, from culture to culture, and second, as a result of socioeconomic
changes. As Moser (1993: 28) argues, "there is no reason why gender
should be an organizing principle of the social division of labor, except the physical
process of childbearing.