The social learning theory of gender role development is where gender roles are developed through reinforcement, punishment, and modeling (Hockenbury and Hockenbury 2013). A common stereotype among women is to stay home in the kitchen either cooking or washing dishes and doing laundry for the entire family. An example of gender role development under the social learning theory would be rewarding a young girl for doing the dishes, or helping with dinner preparation- setting the table, going into the pantry. At a young age, girls are rewarded by their parents for doing the stereotypical chores that a woman does each day. The children see these chores each day through modeling; where they see their mother and father doing separate things around