In Kathleen Gerson’s book, she describes three different types of family styles, egalitarian, neotraditional, and self-reliant, and what each family style includes for its family members. First, an egalitarian family style is a, “lasting commitment and combines it with a preference for balancing and sharing work and family tasks” (Gerson 105). An egalitarian family style is a nearly equal arrangement where both individuals contribute to nearly all family tasks. On the contrary, Gerson states a neotraditional family style, “stresses permanent marriage and clearly defined gender boundaries” (105). A neotraditional family style could possibly stick to those gender boundaries of old where there is a breadwinner husband and a stay-at-home mother