Churches, schools, village life, and parents all set guide lines for minimal contact between different genders under the age of twenty-one. Fijian culture also has created unwritten laws about the interaction of men and women based upon how they are related. As Seen in Everyday Life F ijian culture has facilitated the division between men and women in many ways. One of these ways is through division of labor. Men are supposed to spend their days out of the house working in the garden, sugar cane fields, building houses or having an outside job.
Women spend their days taking care of the household.
They are expected to cook, clean, take care of the children, and gather firewood. One of the men in my village was cooking the meals because his wife was sick. Separation between men and women is also seen in where the different sexes sit. Men are traditionally supposed to eat before the women and children. This does not usually happen in the present day but during meals women sit at the bottom of the table cloth while men sit at the top.