After all the food was consumed, the young women, myself included, were expected, through an unspoken assumption, to make and serve all the elderly espresso shots. The expectation for the young women to serve the elderly is yet another example of the unique political structure that is somewhat selective to the political structure at work here. The many unspoken duties that were assigned to different age and “gender roles” reveals the way in which the political structure dictates who does what during family celebrations.
Lara, Ana-Maurine “Gender Roles ” (Lecture, Introduction to World Cultures, Eugene, OR, October 17, 2017).