How Gender Comes Into Play

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 result of the increase of pregnancy rates in the 1950s there was a decrease of employment. Instead of going to work, mothers cared for their children at homes. This reinforced the roles of women as wives and mothers. Today, women are now more liberated from these roles. That being the case Author Natalie Angier, of the article, “The Changing American Family, explains, 62 percent of the public, and 72 percent of adults under 30, view the ideal marriage as one in which husband and wife both work and share child care and household duties…” This quote demonstrates that majority of women are no longer the housemakers of the family. The twenty-first century women are through with stereo gender jobs and proved to be a family's breadwinner. In the 1950s, Author Brigid Schulte, of the article, “Unlike in the 1950s, there is no ‘typical’ U.S. family today,” points out, “....in the 1950s, 65 percent of all children under 15 were being raised in traditional breadwinner-homemaker families. Today, only 22 percent are.” This quote supports the belief that both husbands and wives should share the responsibilities of supporting their families with financial income and responsibilities in the

Gender has become a popular topic within many aspects of social life, one being within the household labor. Gender stereotypes reflect on the expectations society has over females and also males. Those expectations are not entirely based on how both genders should emotionally react or behave, but also on how activities should be accomplished within ones household. Part of our society, continues to expect and believe that the majority of the domestic labor within a family should be completed by the wife, no matter whether she works outside the home or not. These expectations are able to bring order into a family, but it can also take a toll on the individual completing the majority of the labor. Which according the research conducted, this issue could potentially lead to marital unhappiness or to the extent of divorce. Over the years, traditional views have changed to some extent to egalitarian views of domestic work. I personally believe that there are many variables that must be taken into consideration when comparing families. Some of those variables are whether both partners are in the labor force or not, whether they have children and if so how many, or whether the partners hold traditional beliefs or not. The topic of gender has become crucial in our society, especially within domestic work, and whether there’s equality or not. Overall, traditional gender roles within a household can be beneficial for a family, or they can also convey stress and disagreements between

The fact that media is blind to gender means that women and men are only perceived according to their interests. This allows us to realize that, with increasing frequency, women and men have similar interests - not that, as we've always thought, women have an interest in chick flicks and shopping. So, in that way, the fact that advertising is blind to gender means that women and men will be less likely to fit into the stereotypical personalities that are normally thought to be inherent of a particular gender, and women and men will become more liberated in the choices that they make about their own lives and interests.

This research paper explores five published journals articles from research-conducted interview, online survey, and questionnaires about gender roles. The first two articles talk about the sharing of parenthood and how their roles as parents are being misunderstood by the society. The third article explores if social support balances the link between gender role conflict and psychological distress, and also, the fourth article investigates cardiovascular reactivity to two interpersonal consistent with two different gender roles stressors to determine whether responses differences exist between men and women. Finally, the fifth article focuses his attention on the roles of gender and a generation

In the Oxford Dictionary, altruism is defined as “the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.” In other words, altruism is “when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves.” (What is Altruism?) Many stereotypes exist dictating acceptable ways of how men and women should behave, leading to the questions: Does gender play a role in whether or not one chooses to act altruistically? Is one gender expected to act more altruistically over the other? Different conclusions based upon different experimental studies have been formulated as answers to these questions. “It is gender differences in expectations about others’ giving — not differences in tastes for fairness that explain the altruistic behavior of men and women” (Rigdon and Levine), and it is dependant on the situation that determines if “women are more generous than men, or if men are more giving than women.” (Andreoni and Vesterlund) However, Andreoni and Vesterlund also found, “men are more likely to be either perfectly selfiŽsh or perfectly selfess, whereas women tend to be “equalitarians” who prefer to share evenly.”

Often there is this perception even today that males are the breadwinners for the family—why is it that females, still today, cannot be considered breadwinners? According to Pew Research, equal pay comes down to reasons why women leave the work force temporarily—reduction of hours to take care of family, time taken off to have a baby, leaving their job, or even saying no to a promotion (Patten, 2015). The biggest category of the aforementioned is the reduction of hours. Why is it only women reduce their hours to take care of family? Where is the unified efforts of the mother and father to equally take care of family? This author believes that if you first look towards that question, you can slowly over time dispel the still existent notion that women aren’t

The idea of “boy clothes” and “girl clothes” is something heavily engrained in our culture. We often attribute certain clothing items or styles to be specifically for a girl or for a boy. Feminine dresses and skirts for girls and pants and suits for boys. Why is it that clothes hold so much meaning to them? Because of this much gendered approach to dressing, there has always been a strict limit to what gender can wear what. Gender roles and specific ways that each sex should act are culturally assigned to men and women and are reinforced by the use of clothing as they highly emphasize the qualities of biological sex. Fashion is something that promotes gender stereotypes of femininity and masculinity and this is represented in clothing, hairstyles, shoes, accessories and more.

By understanding how this change has come about, predictions can be made to determine how this will impact the future, to see if this will change situations outside of the home that are gender sensitive, and to see if this will give a people a broader perspective to work with.

While once considered a taboo, pre-marital sex has become normative. The last decade has revealed substantial increases in the number of individuals having pre-marital sex. Current estimations suggest that 82% to 95% of Americans have had pre-marital intercourse (Renfrow and Bruce, 2014). To understand why an individual (male or female) will choose to have sex, all underlying factors must be examined. Pre-marital sex is a social issue. The cultural ‘norm’ that once existed has changed. Prior to the twentieth century, sexual activity before marriage was not socially acceptable (Bogle, 2008). Communities and families monitored the sexual behavior of unmarried

The preconceived notion that all families and relationships follow traditional roles when it comes to a work and family balance is foolish. Traditional gender roles in a relationship have been women spending the most time at home doing housework and raising kids, while men solely focused on a 9 to 5 job. Times are changing and society is becoming more and more accepting of non-traditional families and relationships. When finding a balance between work and family, gender plays a huge role. Sometimes when looking at specific instances and relationships, it can provide insight that cannot be gained from statistics and charts. The couple I choose to analyze has been together for 20 years, both work the same job, and have 3 kids. They grew

In the 1960s to 1970s, a feminist movement began and sparked a change in attitudes towards women in familial roles and pushed against gender inequality. This movement’s effects trickled down to the opinions and actions of people in the later 1970s to mid-1980s. The period saw a decline in the backing of the traditional family wife role for women and greater acceptance for women finding employment (Mason, K.O., Lu, Y., 1988). However, the change also encountered backlash, with the growth of employed mothers came concerns of the negative effects on the children and their relationship with the mother (Mason, K.O., Lu, Y., 1988). This triggered an inconsistent time for family structure. The nineties saw

This section focuses on the traditional sex roles in the family setting, in which the role of father as a breadwinner and women as a homemaker. However, women has facing new challenges as they are participating in the labor force while it is expected that mothers still retains their household responsibilities and child-rearing. It is evidenced from the interview that both respondents’ are employed mothers and they are working as full time with an approximately seven hours per day. Meanwhile, male (their husband) still retains their traditional role as working in the labor market. Women, in additionally, gain a higher access to upper status job, just like Jennifer. Therefore, women are no longer just stay at home

Conventionally, females played a very insignificant role in the paid work force of a society as many times they were expected to be home taking care of their family. Their roles at home can often include grocery shopping, meeting all the needs of her children and husband. As time moved on, our society became more accepted of sharing housework between the couples, but even so, the traditionally more feminine housework such as cooking, caring for sick children, and shopping for the entire family are mostly done by the females of the house. It is argued in a research journal Work and Occupations (Witkowski & Leicht, 1995) that in an average North American family, females take on roughly three-quarters of the housework. Even though we are in a democratic society, parenting roles in the household are assigned based on gender rather than in a democratic fashion (Winslow-Bowe, 2009). Because of the many responsibilities and obligations that are associated with the female gender, their career paths are eventually affected for the worse. According to Statistics Canada (2001), for every dollar a man earns, a single woman earns 93 cents and a married woman earns 69 cents. These statistics

Most high level jobs are done by men. Should the government encourage a certain percentage of these jobs to be reserved by women?