Gender Roles Expect To Be Subservient

According to societal expectations, women are expected to be docile and submissive to men. Daisy, a character in The Great Gatsby, claims that she hopes her daughter will “be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 17). Put simply, women are expected to look pretty and keep their mouths shut and opinions to themselves. By being a “beautiful little fool” a girl would grow up, unaware and ignorant of the constraints put on her (Fitzgerald 17). Similarly, Rugen from The Princess Bride says, “Your

From the day that we are born our gender is influenced to partake in certain gender roles depending on our sex. One’s sex is distinguished by biological characteristics that set us apart, while our gender “consists of whatever behaviors and attitudes a group considers proper for its males and females” (Henslin 292). Males are influenced to partake on more aggressive roles to show power and dominance, whereas, female are influenced to partake on more nurturing and subservient roles. However, if one fails to do so they are labeled a feminist “not masculine/feminine enough” or gay/lesbian.

Today in society it can be agreed that women have indeed gained many rights that were not accessible to them 100 years before. Although, despite the mentality that men and women are treated equally there are still very many discrepancies between the treatment of genders. Many of which can be attributed to the expectations placed on the genders, gender roles between both genders, and women in the workplace. These issues have caused a great rift to form between the genders, a rift that has caused one gender to claim dominance over the other and this can develop a sense of inferiority by the submissive gender.

Today we live in a world that continually stresses to us that, "All men are created equal." While this sounds great at face value, further inspection tells us that this is far from realistic and sadly may never be. One can examine any aspect of society whether it be race, religion, language, level of education, sexual orientation or economic status and notice that there are numerous characteristics and factors of identity that enable others to treat others differently. This truth may not be pleasant or make one feel all warm and fuzzy inside, however it is our society’s reality, however dismal it may be. Even if the statement above as to the equality of all men were true, how about women? Clearly women have made tremendous strides towards

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.

As a biological female, in more ways than not, I tend to follow the expected roles of a traditional women. Associated with the role of a female are certain personality traits, behaviors, appearances, and occupations. Females are seens as gentle, emotional, nurturing, soft-spoken, cooperative, and dependent. Females are expected to be “pretty” by using makeup, skincare, and haircare products. Longer hair is seen as feminine, as well as, the color pink. In addition, women are expected to pursue careers as teachers, nurses, social workers, and secretaries because these careers required traits and characteristics which are associated with “female.” I view myself as a gentle person, but I am also a strong and relentless soccer and rugby player.

Female expectations are less strict compared to male expectations, however many women still believe that they need to harbour the interests and desires of men. In addition, young women are often taught to be nurturing, attend to other people's needs, avoid conflict, and be concerned about their physical appearance all the time. Like male expectations, these characteristics are not necessarily bad. It is the harshness of these expectations that females must behave in this way all the time that makes them difficult.

In our society, we are all expected to follow specific gender rules. Gender roles are culturally set rules to define masculinity and femininity and show social power. Specifically if you are a woman, you are expected to be sensitive, caring, beautiful, and emotional. On the other hand, if you're a man you are to be strong mentally and physically, the provider, aware of self image, and don't show emotions a

The society we live in today has expectations for everyone from birth till death. These expectations can make us become a person we never thought we would be, or a person we are glad that we became. You can call these many expectations your gender role which is a set of societal norms dictating what types of behaviors are generally considered acceptable or appropriate for a person based on your actual or perceived sex. Everyone living in society today has them to fill. Gender roles do not always have a positive impact on a person. When you are growing up your parents always told you to be who you wanted to be and to chase your dreams. The requirements your suppose to fill while perceived as a male or a female make

I enjoyed reading your post. I can relate to your post where you stated that your father to this day will not allow you to cut the lawn. This holds true in my family. The females are being allowed to sweep, rake, clean the garage and pull weeds. The one task we were not allowed to do, is to cut the lawn. I always thought it was ridiculous. If we the girls to do all the other chores, then why not cut the grass.

Some of the expectations for a man are having a strong upper lip as in not being emotional. Another is how women receive more of the blame in love triangles, such as being called a shaming words. More issues along that category are how females are told to keep their legs closed, but hearing of men being talked to like this is rare. Men are also expected to do hard labor as well as provide for the need of his wife or girlfriend. But there is a difference between being polite and being sexist. Like saying someone is unable to do something just because of their sex would be being sexist. Holding a door open at a busy hotel for everyone is acting out of kindness. However, men seem to have an issue, such as if a woman is to offer him help he will most likely say no because his pride would be wounded. Men though do the same for women also we are expected to be grateful for not having to go through that labor of carrying our own property.

My personal experience with gender roles I never had before but, probably would never had the experience of it before. Even though, I probably did in high school I would never remember it. I think something happened when I was in high school about gender when a teacher kind of judge a student because the way they dress. I believe one student did not want to dress like a boy because of his sexuality and the teachers would not accept it so they made him changes. They told him he cannot come to school like that.

Gender roles are a common topic today. What are males and females expected to do? What is socially acceptable for each sex? Is it equal among sexes? One may consider that gender roles are influenced by biology, culture, social class, and environment.

Sadly, I feel that most of the time women are so brutal to each other and are constantly judging everyone. We can easily change the roles that we are expected to follow. We just have to allow the women who are trying to break out of the typical gender roles be able to do what they want to do. We women treat each other with such disrespect sometimes, how could we possibly expect others to treat us right. The example we set daily will follow us in the years to come.

Although in Western culture expectations of gender have changed, there are still gender expectations that exist within Western cultures. Women are still expected to be the caregivers, soft, and weak while Men are expected to be strong and powerful. Instead of families letting their children pick what they want to play with, “they give girls baby dolls to play with to enhance maternal and caring feelings and give boys sporting equipment which emphasizes feelings of power, aggressiveness, and leadership” (Moet 1). Children associating themselves with these activities foreshadows what their future holds for them. These early gender preparations influence the children's understanding to strongly develop that role. These traits become robotic to children and influence the ‘normal’ gender identity for a particular sex and how to behave as a male or a female. Educationally, Western culture engages in believing that boys are better at math. Western society places a heading on women that their educational values are being a wife and mother which deemphasize their intellectual abilities. Unfortunately, young women engaging in getting an education feel turned down because they fall into the trap of believing boys are better at math than girls which causes them to achieve lower math scores. The discouragement does not come from “boys are better than girls at math but because boys think they are better at math” (Davis 3). Young women are beginning to question whether they have the