“Kinder, Kuche, Kirche,” is an infamous and old German quote supposedly referring to a woman’s place in German society as children, kitchen, and church. Disgraceful and chauvinistic, this expression demonstrates the understanding of gender roles that existed in Germany as well as the western world in the early 19th century. Nowadays, this would probably cause an uproar among all layers of modern society if any one person was brave enough to remotely think to proclaim such a saying in public. However, despite the fact that we are now two centuries ahead of this said expression, an unpleasant surprise is that we—modern people living in the 21st century—are still guided by gender stereotypes about appropriate gender roles pertaining to both men
