Gender And Gender Roles

Before this class I believed men and women’s gender roles in society were strictly defined. As I gained more knowledge from the Critical Thinking Reader, The Grapes of Wrath, and my research project, I learned that gender roles change based on an individual’s environment, socio-economic standing, and societal norms/expectations. These resources helped clarify that men and women’s roles in society are interchangeable and there are no definite lines or barriers that keep them from fulfilling all roles, that being said men and women can also remain stuck in the roles society has traditionally seen them in.

When a person is born, they are either male or female. Before they are born, their parents are going to set goals and expectations for them. Sometimes parents will name their child after a famous celebrity hoping they will be just as great as them. Each gender will have different ways they should live their life in order to stay within their gender role. Some will meet the expectations and other will not. That does not make them look less of their gender, they will just be expected to meet them. Over the years, some gender roles have submerged and others have risen above. They will be able to show how the gender roles are supposed to be in jobs, education, and marriage and also how they can benefit from stepping out of the gender roles.

‘The characters Gail and Enid reinforce the idea that a woman’s place is in the home, and men make all the decisions’

In many shops, there seems to be an obvious separation between boys and girls items, for example, the birthday cards, books, clothes, and toys. This is shown in a variety of ways the boy's items are mainly the color blue and the books have pictures of either action figures, superheroes or tools. Whereas the girl's items are mainly the color pink. The books show pictures of fairies, princess, and Bratz. The cards also have the theme of the color pink for girls and blue for boys. The girl's cards have a lot of sparkles and pretty pictures whereas the boy's cards are covered in camo kind of illustrations and also have action figures on the covers. The children's clothes are separated into sections where there are labels for the boy's clothes and labels for the girl's clothes. The girl's clothing is all pretty and pink, it is covered in sparkles. Whereas boys clothing has camo patterns, blue colors, and pictures of action figures.

In present day all around the world, society has certain expectations for the actions and behaviors of males and females. There are many factors in our everyday lives that contribute to the gender norms that society has set. This essay will discuss how situations in life can play a part in how people treat other people based on their gender. It is believed that males are the leaders of our world, but in present day woman can do as much as men can do. From The Journal of Marriage and Family, Hu states, “Differentiated gender roles in adulthood are rooted in one’s gender role socialization. In order to understand the persistence of gender inequalities in the domestic sphere, we need to examine the gendered patterns of children’s housework time.”(2015, P.1). Gender roles are society’s expectations of the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females that they must be taught. These roles define how females and males are viewed in society, their household, and workplace. In The Journal of Sports behavior by Hardin, he states, “Although gender role differences from biological and “Natural” exists in popular consciousness, research has long demonstrated that instead, many are long time socially constructed… Individuals understand their gender because they are given names and treated in particular ways, such as dress in pink for girls and blue for boys, that reflect social construction of gender. Bandura's social cognitive theory is key in understanding the factors in socialization”(2009, P.3). Bandura's theory of of social cognition is that behavior, environmental events, and cognitive factors are the main keys that shape attitudes and actions of an individual. Although, gender roles play a very big part in our society, specific genders are treated differently while dealing with peer influence, media influence, as well as employment.

Gender roles is a problem that takes place in both the workplace, domestic conditions, and society. Often signified through the age-old stereotype. That men are required of the more "challenging" or more "advanced" jobs, while women restrict themselves to the less grueling and less beneficial positions. Terms such as "that 's a man 's job" is a leading cause of inequality in the workplace. Not to mention, gender roles and standards are set in the homes of many families everywhere. The so-called "picture perfect family" situation; the husband goes to work while the wife stays home to tend to the children. While romanticized as ideal, this concept is the very essence of a patriarchal society. Meanwhile, the brutally vicious society we live in often berates women 's self-esteems in more way than one. Stereotypes of beauty, or who are skinny, pretty, white, and wealthy, are unfortunately the ideal standard of women and

The topic of gender roles is a subject that has been discussed and argued upon for several years, regarding the depiction and expectations of what it means to be a man and, conversely, what it means to be a woman. Along with the topic comes what and how society defines masculinity and femininity. Society has given men the title of being masculine due to the reflection of  dominance, strength, aggressiveness, independence , and the use of interpersonal skills. Whereas society has given females the title of being feminine for having the qualities of being vulnerable, modest, dependent, and delicate. The definitions for both genders follow behind the depiction and expectation on how one may act, whether male or female. A male wants to appear

Gender socialization often begins early once parents are shown the sex of their child; from then on, baby showers are planned according to gender “appropriate” colors, which are often pink for girls and blue for boys. Even differences in how children are spoke to can be picked up easily in Western cultures. Girls are called pretty and sweet, whereas boys are handsome and strong. Ultimately, the way children learn to identify with their gender culture is in part due to not only family and friends, media, schools, and religion, but also from the toys that may inexplicitly advertise gender expectations. Gender-typed toys may be bought for children as a way for parents to encourage and reinforce gender-appropriate behaviors. However, recent debates have engulfed toy manufacturers and major retailers, which has brought about changes in toy design and marketing in an effort to make reflect more realistic and gender neutral options.

Cecilia Ridgway, in “Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World,” holds that gender exists as an organizing social force. We value certain stereotypes of how people of a certain gender should act and incorporate these expectations into our social relations. Men, Ridgeway explains, are typically viewed as having more “competence, assertiveness, confidence, independence, forcefulness, and dominance” (Ridgeway, 2011) in social relations. Women, on the other hand, are viewed as valuing “emotional expressiveness, nurturance, interpersonal sensitivity, kindness, and responsiveness” (Ridgeway, 2011). According to Ridgeway, these gender stereotypes are basic knowledge in the contemporary United States and, therefore, are present in most social interactions.

Society has institutionalized gender roles since the beginning of time, a common one is that women are the nurturers and housekeepers, while men are the breadwinners of household. In spite of centuries, and fighting for women 's rights, such as the right to vote in the late 1920s. Women still have roles to fulfill, even in a modern society that is dominated by a virtual world. Gender identification has multiplied from that of men and women, to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ).. Nonetheless, we still have particular roles even for women in gay virtual communities. Education and gender are significant in dictating the participation as well as limitations of women in social media. They demonstrate that gender roles are persistent even in social media, but most importantly, that women are the primary object of societal values.

For the last decade, unethical decisions have saturated the business word leaving educators, professionals and scholars alike perplexed as to what is causing it. As a result, numerous studies on the effect of teaching business ethics have been published specifically, with regard to gender. The differences between the actions men and women with faced with ethical dilemmas has been examined greatly, albeit, producing conflicting results (Roxas & Stoneback, 2004; Mason & Mudrack, 1996). Studies have found that females score higher than males both before and after receiving ethics training (Flynn & Buchan, 2016; Wang & Calvano, 2015). At the same time, stating ethics training significance on both sexes (Flynn & Buchan, 2016; Wang &

Financially independent women now have a new fear to face. As if being underpaid and discriminated against isn’t enough, women must now deal with the prominent effects that their professional achievements have on their personal lives. In the United States, … the growth of the service economy has been linked to an increase in evening-and night-shift work and weekend employment, as well as to an increase in the employment of females, particularly married women (Presser 1989). This increased employment among married women has led to the development of a “second shift”- the unpaid workload women perform aside from their paid jobs. Has the growing participation of women in the workplace led to a decline in marital satisfaction? As women’s cultural

Children that grow up without same gender role models aren’t as prepared for life. Every child should have a chance to live with both of their parents. If the parents do get divorced the child should get to see a different parent every week. One week stay at the mother’s house, and then go to the father’s house the following week or vice versa. Most parents don’t realize the effect they put on their child when they separate with their spouse. A child getting separated from one of his parents is just like someone important to them dying. Both mothers and fathers have very important roles to their children. Today it is mostly fathers raising daughters, and mothers raising sons. It has been shown that children that grow up without their same gender

In regards to this, the reason why I chose Mead’s work Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World as one of my anthropological research is because of the moral of this work– to create a good and equal society–and its ability to “take account of these fundamentals in assigning roles to its men and women, while at the same time permitting sufficient freedom of choice to allow full expression of the abilities of both sexes. Having taken this stand we are surprised to find the author in sudden retreat, in an attempt to escape from what she fears may be too much freedom for women, threatening both their men and their femininity” (Seward 1950, 281). Hence, no one should feel subjugated to one gender or gender roles because of biological

Sexual orientation parts constitute the states of mind and practices that are anticipated from guys and females in a given culture of society. It is these gender roles that give the effect of sex disparity among the male and the female sex. I trust the most imperative concern facing women in the U.S today is the inequality in the work field. Keeping in mind that this inequality is built upon several factors such as wage gap, stereotyping, sexual harassment and many others that are outstanding even when viewed from outside of the work environment.