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Traditional Roles in Relationships: It's Okay to Be Old Fashioned. Relationships have really changed over the last few decades. In most marriages now, men and women share (ideally) the responsibilities of earning the money, handling the finances, making the decisions and raising the children.
Two influential theorists on group behavior were Kenneth Benne and Paul Sheats, who wrote a respected article titled Functional Roles of Group Members back in the 1940s. In it, they defined 26 different roles that can be played by one or more people within a group.