The Importance Of Gender Standards In Society

What are society’s expectations for women today? In Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, Jane is expected to care and teach Mr. Rochester’s child. In the article, “Jen Welter Is Teaching Men, and Girls, as N.F.L.’s First Female Coach” Ken Belson is explaining that Jen Welter is the first woman in history to play for a men’s professional team. Today in our society, women are expected to support their family and get jobs that men can’t get.

In most cultures, boys and girls are treated very differently. Despite the differences of gender, upbringing creates gender behavior, including aggression and gentility; societal stereotypes of gender, and most importantly, gender-based discrimination.

Mothers and fathers have different perspectives on how their children are raised. This causes parents to have different hopes and standards for their children. Parents believe they are being fair and equal but are unconsciously differentiating their standards by gender. Although many parents think they have similar standards for their sons and daughters, parents more often than not have different standards when it comes to their own.

The gender equality issue within our society stems from what children are being taught from the day they are born. Whether it is conscious or sub-conscious children are being taught at an early age the stereotypes of what it is to be a girl or a boy. “Choices about what they will play with or wear are made for younger children and, by the time they come to make their own, they have already learnt what is expected of them and will often behave accordingly.” (National Union of Teachers, 2013, p.3). Educators calling on girls to do chores around the classroom or not allowing boys to play in the family corner they are only help in print these stereotypes into the minds of the children. It has been said that children soak up their social environment like sponges, so by sending out new social messages educators are able to create a

Gender roles have held a dominant position in our society since the beginning of humanity. From birth children learn from their parents and society what “feminine” and “masculine” consist of and the responsibilities that come with either one. Gender, rather than being a biological concept is cultural one, varying from culture to culture. Both males and females are categorized by certain mannerisms, behaviors, and interests that society has set forth expecting them to follow such rules. Women are expected to play the role of a housewife making sure the home is a livable space and taking of the children while on the other hand, men are expected to be the ones who provide income for the family.

More to the point, the male and female genders are characterized as opposites. All in all, gender as a fixed behaviour is the widely accepted understanding and those outside the gender binary are rejected. Research has provided evidence that is indicative of gender-variant children attempting to conform, but struggling due to a lack of support and from victimization directed towards them (Riley, Sitharthan, Clemson, and Diamond,

I trudged into this class the first day unaware that I was going to be hit in the face with the reality of social gender norms and how awful they are. It’s as if we’re put in a trance growing up that puts us in specific lanes that we need to stay in called gender norms one lane is titled “female” and the other is “male.” I was asked “What is a woman?” and the first few things that popped into my head were well long hair, breasts, makeup, and a vagina. None of these things are what should define a woman although a vagina is something a female is born with at birth. What I’ve learned so far has made me look at things differently or more like the right way. We fall into these roles that society developed throughout the years and we’re expected

Conceptions of idealized and appropriate feminine qualities are majorly constructed by the dominant patriarchal discourse that judges female behaviour with reference to gender-based social norms. Incarcerated within the patriarchal disciplinary system, the female bodily act becomes a subject of highly structured regulations whose “inspecting gaze” forces it to be infantilised or penalised. Living under the custody of their offenders, women are the target of a manipulative process that strives to condition them, training them to believe in its established qualities of femininity. Through a systematic surveillance of their behaviours and thoughts, the oppressive controlling system turn women into “docile bodies” which are emblematic of conformity and submissiveness. “[L]argely interpellated by

Society is changing how women are raised, and not for the better. People often genderize babies from the moment they are born. Right from birth, hospitals make it a point to identify the gender of a baby by wrapping the newborn in either a blue blanket for a boy or a pink blanket for a girl. This is because society assumes that just because someone is female, they would like the color pink. Society is pushing parents to identify children based on gender early on, which also is the beginning of how gender roles from. For example in the article “Learning to be Gendered,” Penelope Eckert looks at the role that the gender of a baby has on the parents and how the parents in return treat the child differently. In an experiment conducted in the

Despite the popular belief that gender norms and inequalities are no longer an issue in today’s times, these outdated perceptions are still evident and hinder growth in societies. Many Americans are familiar with the phrase, “All men are created equal,” a phrase that may augment one’s patriotism because it can be located in The Constitution. However, this phrase unintentionally sets men higher than women in social status and should be rewritten to “All men AND women are created equal” which erases the barrier in gender inequality once created by our Founding Fathers. Gender norms are also still apparent. When one thinks of a sport such as wrestling, the thought of a female participant may cause one to question why the female in wonder

For years, both male and females have been treated differently. Parents claim, son or daughter, they treat all of their children the same. From the research I have gathered and also from personal experience, this claim deceives parents. In the sense of a parent, determined by the child’s sex, parents treat their children differently. With this treatment comes numerous situations where double standards occur.These standards can begin to take place as early a toddler. When it comes to parental gender double standards, I believe the phrase “well, she is a girl” and “boys will be boys” is too commonly used by parents. Although parents set a standard for all of their children, daughters tend to be set at a higher standard than sons. These standards

One wonders, however, how much influence a child's peers have on their understanding of, and adherence to, gender roles. It's certainly important for parents to challenge gender stereotypes, but unless the rest of the world joins in, children are going to be faced with, say, classmates who pull a truck from a girl's hands and yell, "This is a boy's toy!" or science and math teachers who overlook a girl's contributions to the class, or fail to encourage her to participate, due to an ingrained belief that women do not excel in these fields. Perhaps the best anyone can do, as Eliot notes, is to just try to provide kids with as equal a playing ground as possible: ""I don't want to be accused of saying it's all environment and it's all parents,

Gender roles are based on norms, or standards, created by society have been around for many years. These standards limited what or who we could potentially become such as women becoming doctors or men becoming teachers. Masculine roles are usually associated with strength, aggression, and dominance, while feminine roles are associated with passivity, nurturing, and subordination. Men and women often appear to behave in ways that don't fit masculine and feminine expectations. These roles are exposed to us as young as babies, such as the clothes we wore or the toys we played with and the socials aspects of everyday life. In Mona Lisa Smiles the majority of the students of Wellesley College wanted to get married and settle down with kids. However,

Society today places many ideals when it comes to proper behaviours regarding gender roles. These are considered societal norms that are widely debated and controversial. Society has created a norm, which encompasses specific expectations and rules that change the daily lives of men and women, giving them specific tasks and behaviours to abide by. These standards are known as gender roles, which are defined as distinguishing actions, thoughts, and feelings of males and females. Gender roles are said to be a result of nature, which is a natural process, every male or female is to follow. On the other hand it can be a result of nurture, which changes ones way of thinking and adapting their lifestyle to fit their environment. Either way gender roles are a part of someone’s life from the moment of their birth, as they develop, and long after that, this proves that gender roles are influential to a person’s life and development. This essay examines how media such as music, family life, and different parenting styles encompass gender roles and teaches behaviours regarding them. Therefore, gender roles define males and females are a result of nurture and not nature.

According to gender theory, society assigns certain conventions and roles to men and women. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, these gender roles play an important part in developing the plot and the ensuing conflict that follows. Both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth appeal to the role of “manhood” as violent and aggressive in order to accomplish the murders of King Duncan and Banquo. Women are portrayed as initiators of evildoings and, thus, inherently wicked. In Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses the characters of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and Macduff to demonstrate how the change in gender roles from those of medieval society to those of a more modern society create confusing choices in the means of achieving goals.