In the short story The Lottery, roles are different for the two different genders. The eldest man is the one who picks out the slip for the whole family during the drawing of slips for the lottery. If it can be helped, women should not be the one to take the slip. Only if there are no more males over the age of sixteen, can the eldest woman get the slip. Additionally, the family name is inherited from the male parent, but that it also what happens in modern society.
Among the kids, boys are usually the ones to play with the rocks and mess around. Girls would stand to the side and talk amongst each other. The man of the family would come first, then the woman shortly after. The women would gossip around with each other for a little, and then join their husbands standing off to the side. Then the children would have to stop their play and go to their parents. Young women who recently married would be in the same family group as their husbands and leave their siblings and parents.