...Gender Role Analysis Mindy Brown SOC/333 February 17, 2014 Erica Lloyd Gender Role Analysis Gender roles and stereotypes are often intertwined. Stereotypes can be positive or negative, and are speculations about the roles of each gender. The stereotypical female role is to marry, have children, and take care of the household duties. Stereotype of the male role is to be the family provider financially. Children learn these from adults as stereotypes and gender roles are passed from one generation to another. This paper will analyze gender roles shaped by education, norms of the government, its laws and its policies, and in the workplace. Gender Shaped by Education Gender roles and stereotypes are often reinforced in the classroom setting. Children learn these gender biases from their teachers and the materials used for learning. Some teachers have an unconscious bias toward a gender and make assumptions based on the gender's behavior and actions. Girls are expected to be polite and studious while boys are rational, unruly, and boisterous. Bias may also be social as well. Teachers may socially categorize children by race, class, and religion. For example, they may perceive African American girls to be more outspoken and louder than Caucasian girls. Teacher typically targeted boys of the Caucasian race as they asked and answered most questions (Scantlebury, 2009). Teachers may ask them more complicated questions than the girls. If they are unable to answer the question...
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...Gender Roles Views on gender roles as a whole especially in the past few years have changed. For each individual views are all over the board. Traditionally men worked to bring in the household income and women took care of the kids and the household. Some families are lucky enough to have the income to keep this kind of arrangement others have had to have both parents work to have the income to stay afloat. It is now the norm for both parents to work and even men to take care of the household and children. Just by watching how a household works forms people’s views on gender roles. My experience just as many peoples nowadays is less than traditional. My parents divorced before I can remember and since then I have been with my mother and brother. My mother seemed to be able to do it all. Amazing looking back on it now, she brought home the paycheck and still managed to cook us breakfast, send us off to school, be home with an after school snack, cook dinner, make sure we did our homework, and put us to bed every day. On top of that she coached one of us in at least one sport each season and managed to give us anything we needed and more times than not what we wanted. I was spoiled, never had to do my laundry and my chores were to mow the yard and pick up after myself. I still managed to view the gender roles as traditional because even though I knew she worked and was the only household income she was always there when we left for school and when we got back and was...
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...Gender roles in the 21st century Introduction Gender roles are a set of social and behavioral norms that are generally considered appropriate for men or women in a social or interpersonal relationship. We are not sure when this practice started but pink and blue begins this lifelong process in the 21st century (Lindsey, 2005). As my research evolves, I plan to examine gender roles in various aspects of 21st century life: workplace, relationships, parenting, voting, consumer behavior, etc. Since this is such a broad topic, my research will likely lead to a paper with a more narrow focus. For now, I've chosen references which are established articles on this broader topic. This research will likely become more focused as I develop the paper. Origin of Gender Roles The gender roles have evolved a great deal from the onset of the human civilization which started as hunter gathers. The males were primarily responsible to provide food, shelter and protection while the women looked after the offspring and took care of the tribe. The Functionalist perspective explains this fairly non-overlapping segregation of gender roles in the pre-industrial society. Evolution of Gender Roles For a considerable period of time there was little or no interaction between the different civilizations and therefore each society developed its own distinct culture and the socialization process. The local socio-economic factors, religious beliefs, legal and political factors had huge impact of the...
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...Gender Identity is a big part of our society. Society has a very strict mindset on how people are expected to be and how each gender should act. Expected gender roles can be very damaging to our kids. Even though we are assigned these gender roles, it is not guaranteed that everyone is going to stick with how they were born, it may be hard for one to be able to connect biologically to them. I believe that forcing and expecting our children to strictly be with what they were born to be, just like society is so used to seeing gender identity, and they choose to act the opposite gender can be very damaging in many ways. The connection parents have with their children is one of the most important things while the child is growing up mainly focusing in their early years, and to know that as a parent you have the power to force your children to be what is expected of them isn’t the way to go. In this essay, I will be talking and giving a couple stories on how the discrimination of parents against their children’s gender identity can be damaging to them and in general about acceptance from parents about one’s gender roles. Children are technically still developing until they have reached their twenties, so with that being said I believe that gender roles are affected mainly by families. The children are not the ones to blame for what gender they choose to be. Remember children are still developing, most children get into gender identity as they grow up and get to know themselves...
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...have balance there must be rules for people to follow. Gender roles are specific tasks or expectations assigned to a woman and a man. These roles are often characterize a single gender with specific traits. Those traits are then carried on by generation which makes people think it should be followed as a natural behavior. In the context of medieval times gender roles are key to a harmonized structured society. Men are leaders of practically everything. Women are the sensitive caretakers of children. In the playwright, lady windermere’s fan, portrays high class characters that discuss their opinions on marriage, behavior of others and morality. Within the conversation the reader discovers what the character values. Values are a part of a untied behavior of society. In other words by analyzing values of these characters one can determine their nature of society....
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...Everyone, I am sure, is familiar with gender bias. This is aimed at males and females alike. The women, in prehistoric time, were gathers while the men were hunters. In the middle ages, men were more likely to become knights than women. In more recent history, women are considered housewives and mothers while the men are considered the bread winners and career men. The women were often excited to see their husbands return after his day at a 9-5 job. The wife must make supper for the family, protect the children, instill them with values, sing good night to the baby, tuck the children in, vacuum the floors, chauffeur the children to school, wash the dog, clean the clothes, wash the floors, buy the groceries, clean the kitty litter, pack the kids lunches, and take the family to church on Sundays. This was the image of the '50s, but a very deprecating and biased image of women. The husband, on the other hand, apparently doesn't have time for this. His main priority is his job and nothing more, except continuing the traditional family name through procreation. The wife, on the other hand, is expected to obey her husband’s exact words and not disobey. She couldn't speak out, and the "be seen not heard" policy was evident. If he spoke to her, she had to say, "Yes, insert husband's name." Otherwise, if she refused to follow through, he had the right to beat or divorce or cheat on her, etc. because he's the man of the household. The wife is also expected...
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...Should We Assign Gender Roles On Children? When you think of the word gender it is usually confused with sex: being male or female. Gender, however, can be loosely defined as the way we perform our sex. Therefore gender is considered something we “do” rather than “have”. Often times at a young age we learn how to perform the appropriate behaviors related to our sex. These behaviors enforce roles on children. Boys are taught what behaviors are associated with masculine. Comparatively, woman are taught what behaviors are considered feminine. As parents we place these roles on our children without any realization of doing so. Our society is what shapes us into these traditional gender specific roles. Of course, as parents we want our children...
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...From the Internet, I know that the “family unit “means very important groups in society and it includes parents and children. No matter how society develops, the family is very important in the world. Although changing gender roles become more and more popular in modern society, the family unit will not be affected too much because everyone needs a family. No matter how the gender roles changes, if people want to have a child, the best way is getting married. Society development is always following the natural law. Although female becomes independent and capable in modern society, have a baby is a special duty for the female. According to Aaron H. Devor, author of article, “ Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meaning of Gender,” he says, “Members of both gender are believed to share many of the same human characteristics, although in different relative ……for each gender class” (388). A lot of successful females also have happy families in modern society. When gender roles change, it will not affect the female to have a baby because female can continue her career after having a baby and male can spend more time to take care of the baby. Part of result of changing gender roles is female go outside to work and male stay at home and work at home. It still can compose family no matter female or male stay at home. Male is more fit to take care of the family than female. Everyone knows that males have better physical power than female. It means that males...
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...Sexuality It’s Complicated is a movie which depicts characters in nontraditional gender roles. A gender role is a behavior that is considered appropriate and normal for a man and a woman in their society. Some stereotypical male gender role characteristics are masculinity, assertiveness, unemotional, dominant, competitive, athletic, and confidence. On the other hand, some stereotypical female gender role characteristics are non assertive, emotional, submissive, warm and nurturing. This characters in this movie moves away from the stereotypical male and female gender roles and leans more towards the nontraditional and transcending gender roles. I focus on three characters; Jane, Jake and Adam. Jane, played by Meryl Streep is divorced, owns a successful business, and a mother of three. Jake, played by Alec Baldwin is divorced, remarried to a younger woman and an attorney. Adam, played by Steve Martin is a recently divorced architect. Jane and Jake were married but have been divorced for ten years. They have three grown children together. Jane remained single and focused on her business; Jake remarried a much younger woman, Agnes, who has a five year old son, Pedro, and is pressuring him to have more children. The unintended affair between Jane and Jake began in New York where they went to attend their son’s graduation. They stayed in the same hotel, end up in the bar together and had dinner. After lots of drinking and dancing Jane and Jake slept together. In the next...
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...Gender Roles How the media has affected the roles and perspectives of the different genders Amanda Luebbert 11 April 2016 Ms. Dudley Sociology People have gone through a lot trying to express themselves and who they feel they are. Having a relationship with someone of the same gender, or wanting to change the gender that a person was born as, was not looked upon with an accepting mind. The media has opened people’s minds to a whole new way of viewing people’s personal feelings and thoughts towards their gender and what gender people should have a relationship with. Media has been an way of inspiring those with different views on certain aspects of genders that many disagreed with. Many people were fully against gay marriage until the media stepped in a made people see it in a different way. Being a transgender was not the most popular thing, but media has made it more acceptable to those that were against it. People should have the right to be whatever gender they feel entitled to whether others think so or not. The media currently has several people that are into the art of makeup. Many of these artists happen to be men. Men are usually not viewed as wearing tons of makeup, but the perspective of these people are positive. People used to be a lot more judge-mental to anyone who wanted to do something that was generally done by the opposite sex. These guys that do fabulous makeup are not looked at as different they...
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...Gender Roles in Ancient Greece and Rome Mary Wright HUM/100 November25, 2013 Ryan Roark Gender Roles in Ancient Greece and Rome In ancient Greece and Rome the roles of each gender played a significant part of the history that we learn of today. Each gender had particular a different role in the ancient times of both of these empires. Men and women were valued for different reasons and had different responsibilities and duties that they were to uphold. Today those roles are not thought of as the same, the gender roles have pretty well evened out. In Athens women were looked greatly upon to not gossip amongst themselves, to keep their homes neat and tidy, for giving birth to legitimate children. This is how they were valued, based upon how well they did each of these duties. Unfortunately, women in Greece were not considered as citizens. In these times, the father had rights over his daughter. After marriage a father had the right to ask for his daughters return. Women in Greece often were kept at home and could own their own property but was not allowed to sell or dispose of her property. In Rome, women were more free as they were able to own their own property as well as sell or dispose of their property. Women also were free to go about where she liked, they were not kept at home out of sight. As to where women in ancient Greece belonged to their father, women in Rome were subject to the dominant male role in her birth house or if she was married that...
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...Running Head: GENDER ROLES 1 Gender Roles Cindy Rohwer SOC 312 Yelena Gidenko November 2, 2013 GENDER ROLES 2 Our children are the leaders of tomorrow. That is why it is imperative that they are raised with care and understanding. Most children today are raised by parents with certain social expectations of them depending on their gender. If they happen to be boys, they are expected to be outgoing, mischievous, and always in the mood to get dirty. Since this is the boys’ expectations, the girls are expected to be the total opposite. Girls are expected to be dainty, pretty and nice. If these standards could not be met, then the child would probably be reprimanded. It is my belief that parents and teachers should stop enforcing these gender roles on their children because gender roles do not let the children find out what they like or want to do. It limits the children’s creativity, and makes children feel like outcasts, when...
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...Gender Roles and Responsibilities Portrayed in the Media Ivy Tech Community College Ashley Stires Professor Jessen February 12, 2014 * Topic came from Chapter 15 on Media ethics in advertising and how businesses use advertising to attract certain groups of consumers. Thesis When you think of the picture perfect family, what comes to mind? Is it a mother and father where the father works and the wife stays home that the media portrays? Or is it the realistic family that either both parents work hard for an income or the mother is taking on more the aspects of being the provider and the father is the housewife. Even though times have changed and women are starting to be the bread winners and responsibilities for men and women are flip flopping. Then why does the media still portray this perfect housewife image that the mother stays home, cooks, cleans, and takes care of the kids. Or the father is works twenty-four seven and when he is not working he at the gym or doing “manly” things like working on a car and getting all dirty. The media is presenting an image of our lifestyles that each male and female are supposed to live up to throughout their daily lives. Not just appearance, it is everyday responsibilities that have been genderized, as to who is supposed to do the yard work, or cook, or even clean. Commercials and paper advertisements, especially cleaning and food advertisements, are using stereotypical images to portray specific gender roles and responsibilities...
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...The influence of media on gender roles Over the last forty years, the gender roles for male and female have changed quite a bit. In the past, women were often viewed as having to assume the duties of the housewife, while the men are the breadwinner in the family. However, these stereotypical views of men and women alike have changed over time to shape the present. Firstly, in attempt to define the meaning of a stereotype Wikipedia (2009) notes that: “Stereotype is a preconceived, oversimplified, exaggerated, and often demeaning assumption of the characteristics possessed by an individual due to his or her membership in a specific group. [It] usually functions to deny individuals respect or legitimacy based on their membership in that group. They are the hardest to dislodge in situations where a dominant group desires to keep another group subordinate”. The purpose of this essay is to generate an understanding of how gender roles are shaped and defined in society due to an overwhelming amount of stereotyping and the influence of the mass media that has left an undeniable impact on our everyday life. When talking about gender, we are referring to “culturally learned notions of masculinity and femininity” (Tepperman et al., 2007, p. 187). As noted by Tepperman (2007), “From a social standpoint, gender is the social enactment of a biological difference.” The result of this is males are treated as men because they play masculine roles, and females are treated as women because...
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...GENDER ROLES AND COMMUNICATION When two people join their lives together in the unity of marriage how are they to decide what roles each will take within the marriage? The role within a marriage changes not only from year to year but also between each couples own relationship. Cultural believes can also affect the role each partner will take within a marriage. What was acceptable behavior several years ago would not be considered the social norm today. The role the husband or wife plays in a marriage is one that is either subservient or dominant. Within these roles the communication within the marriage often is a key element to defining the role each partner plays. What works for one marriage may not work for another. There are also many stereotypes between genders on what should and should not be accepted. In the story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, (Clugston, 2010) we see very different roles between Mitty and his wife then that in “I’m Going”. (Clugston, 2010) One story takes the stance that the husband is more silent and subservient to his wife, pleasing her and keeping his thoughts to himself for the most part. Whereas in “I’m going” (Clugston, 2010) the husband plays a more dominant role and controls his marriage. Regardless of the role and stance taken on the representation of gender roles in marriage it is more important that the marriage have a strong foundation and good communication skills. Communication is defined as “any process in which people...
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