Gender Roles and Stereotypes

Gender roles and stereotypes are natural ways of being and behaving according to one’s sex. Before people can understand what makes people stereotype, they must understand what gender roles are. Gender role refers to the set of social and behavioral norms that are considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex. Some people are insecure, I suspect that many people find that judging others distracts from their own weaknesses. People are taught from one generation to another on how to act in a center manner.
Stereotyping in gender roles is taught by parenting, culture, and the media. In the past women were taught to stay in their place, to remain at home, completed most of the domestic labor, and take care of the children. While the male partners worked outside the home to provide the family income. Women were expected to keep quiet when a problem occurred and not speak up. Men were taught to believe "a woman’s place was in the home." Although women have increasingly joined the workforce over the past years, the division of household labor is based on gender. Women continue to do the majority of the household labor such as cooking, cleaning, and taken care of the children. This is how parenting comes in to the role of stereotyping.
Parenting plays an important role in the developing of a child. How people are taught as children may have an impact on how they will stereotype others as an adult. One article suggests as children, boys are color coded in blue and they like to play with cars, trucks, and building blocks. Girls are color coded in pink and they like to play with dolls, have tea parties, and play dress up. “Children of Different Worlds: The Formation of Social Behavior.” Infant girls are described as tiny, soft, and delicate, while boys are described as strong and alert (27). Children learn ways about gender and the separation of the gender by becoming aware of the manifold way in which parents teach about gender. As an