In terms of aspiration and job choice
A person really has little choice:
Either they do what their father wants of them or what their mother wants
It is not always true, but common
That the daughter follows instinctly the father's wishes -
A higher social class,
marry well, get the grand children into a better school
The right sort
Or the son does what the mother wants or would like
be less ambitious
Be a family man
Be happy
Spend time with the kids
The daughter will marry a rich
but fairly stupid man of the right class
Whom she can control
And the son will marry of a similar class
But a social climber
a wife who is his intellectual superior
So that ultimately she makes the decisions
Like his mother did for him
