In the book "Things Fall Apart" gender roles play a big part of their lives. How their society works is based on how men and women "work" together, their system. Women stay home clean, birth children, cook, they're free maids. Men are strong and plant yams, the king of crops. Men are dominant and feel superior than women, it shows throughout the story.

In the Tribal Culture, there is no gender equality. Males are viewed as a whole person meaning that they have more rights and full control over their lives, future, and decisions. They also have full power and control of their females and think they have the right to mistreat them and do whatever they want with them. Therefore, women are viewed as objects. They are easily replaceable and passed around and abused like objects. It signifies that in the Ibo community, there is a male dominance over women.

Women

- Controlled food processing, pottery making, mat weaving, and cooking

- Older women had control of the labour of younger family members

- Central to trade

- Full authority over their children

- No education

Men

- Superior to women

- Control of women

- Ruled the house

- Provides for his family

- Social and economic activities

(Gender Roles.)