Man try to be provocative and stand out in order to gain status, women do this less of the time. And yes men do this "provocativeness' even with their children, they make silly and lame jokes hoping to get their children attention and respect. Trying to get a smile. Women can make corny jokes too but they often do so in different ways and are not so heavy on the puns, and thus we have the terms dad jokes but we do not have a term for mom jokes.
Whenever I think of Dad Jokes I think of this.