Gender roles in Shakespeare's words

In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, gender roles always dominate what people do in life. Females are most always believed to be inferior to Men. Baptista displays his dominance over his fully matured daughters by choosing which of them is to be married first. Petruchio and Lucentio also reffer to the 2 women as objectives, rather than people. This theme is also reflected in Antigone, as when Ismene always refers to the fact that they must obey their male overlords when arguing with Antigone. But unlike The Taming of the Shrew, Antigone attempts to break this theme by disobeying her male superiors. Gender roles dominate what people do in life during the time periods that these texts were written in, and are clearly dominant over all other themes.