Siblings
👭Gendered care expectations and inheritance
The situation for Siblings – Different Genders is now mapped with its mental model, self-discipline practice, and responses across the seven developmental stages. The structure continues seamlessly, showing how rigid gender roles can be sustained or challenged depending on the dominant mental model framework at play.
🧑🤝🧑 Siblings – Different Genders
Gendered expectations in care roles
Story: “As the daughter, I’m expected to take care of our parents.”
Mental model discipline allows questioning the fairness and sustainability of these expectations.
Disputes over inheritance or family responsibility
Belief: “He’s the man of the house, so he makes final decisions.”
Assumption: “The son carries the family’s legacy; daughters are secondary caregivers.”
Self-discipline: Question inherited gender roles and engage in conversations that reassign responsibility with fairness and clarity
Surfacing enables shared decision-making and rebalancing of power.
Systems Thinking Research & Leadership Development Institute (STRLDi) 