men in the kitchen is an opportunity for them to develop their own skills and assume household responsibilities women and girls may be reluctant to have men and boys engage in housework for fear or losing the limited responsibility they have in the home women and girls can also internalise gender stereotypes on which tasks are socially acceptable for women or men making them resistant to change thus as hopem s experience shows real redistribution of domestic responsibilities requires rethinking restrictive gender roles by and for both women and men