In this story, Cinderella is forced by her sisters, though admittedly with little resistance form Cinderella, to do all of the dirty chores in the house. These chores resemble the sort of paradigmatic tasks that women are expected to do. Cinderella makes the fires, she washes the clothes and dishes, and she cooks the food, all day long. She is fulfilling the stereotypical role of a woman. According to Lu and Mason, the stereotypical role of a woman was “…the traditional division of labor and power between husband and wife in which women take a subordinate, domestic role…”