[cloudmountain]

This episode contrasts (not conflicts) with an earlier episode in which Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law, “and immediately she arose and served them.” Perhaps the point is simply that there are different things to do at different times.
I wondered, after reading this article, is there any occurrence in the Gospels of a man serving anyone, other than Jesus’s washing the Apostles’ feet at the Last Supper? Perhaps the multiplication of loaves miracles, after which the Apostles distributed the food to the thousands of attendees, and then collected the leftovers.

I doubt that men served unless there were NO women around. The division of labor seems to be fairly clear: when women are around, they serve; when they aren't, men serve.
That's not unusual in this world, I think.

[Tax-chick]

Well, in the loaves and fishes episode, Matthews says there were about 5,000 men, as well as women and children. Maybe it would have been socially inappropriate for the Apostles to have asked other men’s wives and daughters to serve and clear up! (Or maybe they did, but Matthew doesn’t mention it.)

[wbarmy]

I doubt that men served unless there were NO women around.

Not even close to true. The seven Deacons were chosen to specifically serve food to the widows and poor people of the church. They were men who were chosen to serve. Acts 6:1-15