Gender Roles

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.

Your _____ depends on whether you were born with distinct male or female genitals and a genetic program that released either male or female hormones to stimulate the development of your reproductive system.

Gender Roles can be defined as roles society expects people to play on account of their sex life. Like all roles, gender roles are made up of sets of expectations, so they can be thought of as sets of expirations, so they can be thought of as sets of expectation that are attached to sex.(pp: 220 John E. Farley & Michael W. Flota).

Societies today are highly affected by the way people are believed to act. Gender roles are created by society, and they are a way to define how a gender should or shouldn't act. In “Answers” by George Singleton, there is a husband and wife thinking about getting divorced, and they begin answering questions in a book, and realize that the other turned out to be less manly or trustworthy, than they believed to be. In “Public Relations” by George Singleton, a man and his wife are out eating with his boss and his wife. While eating he gets fired for talking about how women should act, and how they will amount to nothing without an education. In both of these stories, men and women act differently than the stereotypes put on them by their

The social construction of gender roles is based on the differences in presentation of self in everyday life. Since during 1900s, women were confined to the domestic sphere and had their rights suppressed to a minimum, the social expectations they experienced were complete polar then those of men. As Gilman recalled her experiences prior to her nervous breakdown, John expected her life to revolve around their unborn child. His expectations made it clear that she had be a good housewives and a good mother. However, after giving birth to their child, she was no longer able to perform her expected duties, which led John to wonder about the state of her sanity. In this example, gender roles are clearly defined by patriarchal expectations from

This class focused on sexuality, gender roles, and gender expectation and how it is all related. All of these we discussed are a big part of human sexuality. We talked about how gender roles are put on a person before he or she is even actually born. Gender roles are established as soon as we are assigned a gender by color. If you are a boy more than likely you are going to be associated with baby blue. If you are a girl on the other hand you are identifies as pink.

The male gender role is beginning to emerge as an important and legitimate controversial topic. There are two conditions that defined a male: biological and social. Biology provides a dichotomous male and female prototypes. Male babies are traditionally born with one X and one Y chromosome, as well as the genitalia, called the testes. A key biological function of males is the reproduction, in which a male attempts to produce offspring that will carry their genes. Males typically have higher testosterone levels than females, which stimulates the development of male secondary sexual characteristics, such as aggression, growth in hairs, testes, and muscles. However, the social components of a male play a significant role in the definition of a

From adolescence and on, people have dreams. They develop a sense of longing for a certain career or hobby, and push to make this dream come true. Boys wanted to be firemen, and girls wanted to be ballerinas. One dangerous and heroic, while the other is graceful and poised. Have you ever heard of these roles switched? Have you heard a little boy say he wants to become a famous ballerina, or a young girl saying she wants to put out fires? The society we live in today has taught and developed many from a young age to believe in stereotypes and specific gender roles; therefore, leading us to be blinded by the fact that any sex can do anything they put their mind to: specifically women. Women who have been told they “can’t” for their whole lives.

In our culture, we have this notion that men are better, more natural leaders than women. We see this in the fact that we have never had a female president, and that when we have a female elected to be a judge in the Supreme Court, it’s a big deal. Women and girls have always been told and taught to be docile and submissive, which is the exact opposite of what you want to see in a leader. Because of this, the idea that men make better leaders than women is a widely accepted fact. However, it is socially constructed and not true.

3. Why is our parent’s depiction of these roles important to how we see ourselves?

Gender roles are a conflict in our daily lives that seem to affect the lives of mostly women, and sometimes men too. The roles of many male and females in our society may be different, but why should one have an advantage over the other? The world seems to evaluate males and females differently weather it is for employment, education, and many other situations in life. One's gender should not be a factor of how they should be treated throughout their lifetime, meaning there should not be any opposing attitude or decision towards a human being based on their gender. Gender should just be the state of being male or female to avoid the possibility of causing gender bias. Both males and females should be looked at, and treated equally

For decades’ women have been fighting for their equal rights in every aspect of their life. It refers to a lot of ideas, methodologies which focus towards support for all kind of gender and sex equality for women. In the past women have been criticized in every field of work just for their gender, but the time is changing now and people are changing with it. Women wants their half of what they deserve, they have been overpowered for far too long now. There is no denial to that women are still struggling to takes their place as equals in the society and this world is not going to be a better place until women and men are treated as equal.

Gender role socialization has affected many aspects of my life when it has come to education, relationships, health, and culture. As a child, I aspired to be a doctor and not a nurse because I believed that it was wrong for a man to be a nurse instead of being a doctor. The television shows I would watch would portray men as being doctors and women as being nurses and this has a profound effect on my educational goals which in turn influenced my career choice. My parents adhere strongly to the beliefs of the bible and they passed these beliefs down onto their children as well as a result I was taught from the earliest of ages that homosexuality was wrong and it was against the will of God. I was taught that man and woman belong together and

Early on in my life, I distinguished the difference between gender which was, with my limited knowledge only men and woman, due to the difference in the way we were treated. I became familiar with the stereotypes that society flung on us—women cook and clean and men do all the labour. It was a traditional way of thinking that I grew up with and that didn’t change until I was much older, probably around the age of 13 or 14. My cousin, a brilliantly loud and passionate woman (even at 15 years of age) introduced the term feminism to me and I truly thought she was crazy and man-hating, just like all the stereotypes led me to believe. I began to learn, though. As time passed, I started absorbing all sorts of new information and the most important thing was that I educated myself. I looked at gender again but from a different angle. I questioned society, I questioned everything. Feminism opened a door to a realm that I had only begun to explore at the time. I have both a younger brother and sister and I noticed all the pressure around them to be certain ways, especially my brother because growing up with two older sisters taught him to be gentle and soft spoken, unlike what a “real man” ought to be when he grows up. I realized how toxic masculinity could be and I wanted to be a good example to my siblings and taught myself more on the subject. I taught myself the ways that gender was harmful, including the notion that we all had to fit a binary.