In the 1980s, Marxism, economic forces define political and cultural realities in society, mixed with feminism which stated "that gender is not a class but a driving force of history". This created the idea that “when women are subordinated, men benefit” and that women were disadvantaged compared to men in the workforce (Conley 2013). The Marxist feminist would call this gender conflict. The nuclear family has gender roles which are “a set of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one's status as male or female. Gender roles are a more general term, but Parson's sexual roles are more of an ambiguous term. Sex role theory states that men are work-oriented, while women are home-oriented to form the ideal nuclear family. “Sexual roles created by society were formed by structuralist functionalism, which is the theoretical tradition that holds that every society has certain structures that exist to fulfill a set of necessary functions (2013). Although functionalists supported this theory in the 1960s, it was wrong. Sex role theory provided only one way for a family to function. The essentialist would describe Parson's theory as the social phenomenon of the nuclear family based on the biological factor of sex. RW Connell described the condition in which men are dominant and privileged and which is invisible, which is hegemonic masculinity. Even if hegemonic masculinity is what some theorists impose, it clarifies