Gender roles affect how people think, feel and act. At an early age, a child develops clear ideas of what aspects of behavior are appropriate to be considered as men or women. These gender norms affect our everyday lives. Gender roles immerge as a result of compliance to social influence. Family is the basic unit of a society. In most Pakistani families, father is seen as an “authoritarian figure” and mothers as submissive. My family is not different from others. My father can be identified as a conformist who has a higher pain tolerance and restrictive emotional behavior than my mother. My mother, on the other hand, being an athlete has challenged the gender norms of society and helped my family to
Gender roles affect how people think, feel and act. At an early age, a child develops clear ideas of what aspects of behavior are appropriate to be considered as men or women. These gender norms affect our everyday lives. Gender roles immerge as a result of compliance to social influence. Family is the basic unit of a society. In most Pakistani families, father is seen as an “authoritarian figure” and mothers as submissive. My family is not different from others. My father can be identified as a conformist who has a higher pain tolerance and restrictive emotional behavior than my mother. My mother, on the other hand, being an athlete has challenged the gender norms of society and helped my family to