Females are given the role of nurturing and rearing their children, among other functions such as domestic management. The role of the female as nurturer and domestic helper in the Huouyhnhnm society is because the horse creatures are not willing to entrust the care of their children to the Yahoos, who act as servants of the Huoyhnhnms. Among the European Yahoos, which Gulliver belongs to, the stereotypical female remains a fixture. That is, females remain subservient to males, and are considered 'objects' to be used or individuals to be detested, as Gulliver described females as either nagging wives or "that prostitute female Yahoos acquired a certain malady, which bred rottenness in the bones who fell into their embraces." Thus,...

us, among European Yahoos, males assume the "important" roles and positions, while females are relegated to what are considered "trivial" roles (i.e., domestic management and being objects of sexual desire for males.
Yahoos, whose prime role is to act as servants of the Huoyhnhnms, have a remarkably strong characterization of its female members, described in general in the novel as "she's." Female Yahoos are extraordinarily aggressive, as described in one incident where she admired Gulliver from a distance at the bank, and to satisfy her desire, 'pounced' on him: "[s]he embraced me after a most fulsome manner." In the novel, female Yahoos are portrayed to have control over themselves as independent creatures who knows what she wants and is able to get what she want through her own means (such as what was illustrated in Gulliver's experience with an attracted female Yahoo).