Gender Roles

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.

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 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).

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 &

Gender stereotypes have been an epidemic plaguing society on international level since the beginning of civilization. In the United States of America, these norms have prevented both men and women from fully reaching their potential within society. The issue stems from tradition parenting methods and a deep-rooted history of raising boys and girls to see themselves differently; each with specific roles within their culture divided by a fine line between the two sexes that should not be crossed. Parents need to see the harm of enforcing such rules and how teaching both sexes the same core lessons will be the most beneficial for their children. The question of whether boys and girls should be raised the same is not black and white: it is a conglomerate of various issues that have built up and grew overtime. However, it is the solution to eradicating the toxic culture of gender roles and must be solved with new parenting techniques that embrace children for their unique selves, rather than their sex.

The point of advertisements has always been making sales. The inclination towards solving social issues has not been the main concern for advertisers. However, in recent years, some advertisements have taken on the roles of being both persuasive and progressive by tackling current social issues. Men were previously presented as macho and incompetent with regard to household matters. They were also presented in stereotypical male roles. The body image that is presented to the public is in most cases unrealistic. There existed stereotype with regards to women in the workplace and the jobs that they could be assigned. They are presented with an unrealistic body image; they are objectified and oversexualized, presented only in traditional female roles and depicted as less capable than their male counterparts.

Living in today’s culture, children learn early in life what it means to be either a boy or a girl from the society in which they live. These little girls and boys get their first exposure from observing at their parents, who are t Living in today’s culture, children learn early in life what it means to be either a boy or a girl from the society in which they live. These little girls and boys get their first exposure from observing at their parents, who are their first teachers and educators. What they see mom put on or do may be very different from dad and they can quickly establish a distinction between the two. According to the Gender Schema Theory, children alter their behavior to fit in with the gender standards and beliefs of their culture, so one’s perceptions of what it means to be a male or female differ (Bem, 1983, p.603). Essentially what this means is that individuals understand and conform to gender roles by interacting with various people in their lives. Boys and girls learned how to be their specific gender based on their communication with family members, teachers, friends, etc. It defends categorizing and labeling and why such stereotypes continue in our society. I read a particularly fascinating article where researchers examined the association between parents’ gender role viewpoints on children’s own view about the choice of athletic involvement. The results of the study suggest that parents see sports as more fitting and suitable for their sons and are

For as long as time can remember, a form of entertainment has existed. As times advance, a new and improved mode of entertainment is born. Entertainment and the media has been used and abused over the last century by the many hungry viewers. Medias have not prevailed for the mass amount of time that entertainment has, but the lasting impact the media created has been both positive and negative. However, the negative outshines the positive; media representations of gender and gender roles have a negative effect on men and women.

Why should we pay attention to or worry about gender roles and the dynamics that stem from them when we are constantly being bombarded with serious and pressing issues afflicting our society i.e. the political, environmental, electoral, domestic, international, etc. etc.?

Growing up can be very confusing and creates a lot pressure for many. Young children and even adults might come across a confused state regarding where they belong or stand. There have been many controversies over same sex marriage because many do not agree that a man should marry another man or a women should marry another female. Based on this one can see that there are expectations on what a female or male should do, which is where gender role socialization takes place. Gender role socialization is the process whereby individuals learn and internalize the attitudes, values, behaviors and norms considered appropriate for males and females in our society. In addition to this it also teaches us ways to think, talk, and act.

Society expects different behaviors from boys and girls. Gender socialization is the tendency of socialization of boys and girls differently. Gender roles are personality, attitude, and behaviors expected of people based on their sex. Socialization is one’s process of acknowledgment, acceptance, and awareness of societal values and norms. George Mead theorized that through social interactions, one will develop their personal identity, such as a little girl being gifted a play kitchen set so she can mimic her mother’s role and a boy playing with a plastic tool box. Therefore, following the footsteps of their parents, many grown men struggle to be emotionally available or expressive while women continue to feel obligated to satisfy a man. Many are influenced by culture, and many parts of the world, cultures are different. For example, in the U.S., many people associate the color blue with boys. Even as babies, they are treated different and dressed different. A girl is seen only for her outward appearance while a guy is seen for his interests and aspirations, again, objectifying a woman and elevating a man. Men are shamed upon if they are not the bread earner of the household and women are shamed for not being there for their child instead, working a job. As members of society, one will accept these gender criteria and be disciplined to act according to one’s gender to avoid being the misfit of the group.

Gender role is defined as the role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to their gender, determined by the fundamental cultural norms. Is gender difference a result of nature vs. nurture? The idea of nature vs nurture when it comes to gender stereotypes, gender identity and gender roles in society, is a controversial and highly debated topic. We are all born with unique DNA, and this DNA is what makes us, us. While our society and environment can influence our views or thoughts, it cannot change or DNA. At least it can’t change us enough to make us question or physiological makeup.

Men and women are different from sex and gender roles. The differences of sex are congenital, which means that we cannot make the decision of the sex we were born with. Nevertheless, the differences of gender roles are resulted from social expectation. Globally, there are more and more women entering the workplaces and start working than women from the past due to liberalization of economy and diversity of society. However, women are compensated less than men. As Schwab et al. mention, the average wage of women is almost 50 percent less than men. Men have on average salary of about $20,000, while women earn about $11,000 (Schwab et al., 2016, P.38). The wage gap between men and women is still existent in workplaces, and it happened in many countries. The reason why women are not paid the same as men is because of gender roles. According to Lips, “Stereotypes and social expectation about women and motherhood were used to rationalize paying women less and giving them fewer opportunities” (Lips, 2013, P.224). Gender roles could contribute to gender disparities, such as gender income inequality. There are two ways to solve gender pay gap: companies should restructure the salary system, and companies should allow babies in the offices.

In every religion, culture and country there are many different roles for each gender. From the day we are born, we are led and pushed towards what the normal female or male does on a daily life. Gender roles have always existed even before history was written. The roles in gender is always going to shift whether the female has more power than the male. Though in many ancient societies men have been more dominant then the female. Gender roles are not defined, but are impressed upon us by family, and the culture in which we are raised in. Gender roles is understood as execution of certain social prescriptions, corresponding behavior to a certain gender expressed by clothes, speech, gestures, etc. The values to change over time might be cause by creativity. Some believe gender is a social construction, but it has a biological basis. The ultimate expression of gender roles in society revolves around childs meaning, marriage, and family. It is in this realm that gender most frequently becomes political. For example, as babies, being a baby girl may determine how you are dressed, what toys you should be playing with or expected to be given, and the visions your parents have for your future. Also in cultures, some fathers would want their daughters to get married or as for his son, he’d want him to go to college and become a doctor. For years women, have been coming out and challenging their gender roles placed on them by society in both America and the Middle East. There is a big