How Gender Roles Are Predetermined by the Environment
How gender roles are predetermined by the environment
What is male? What is female? The answers to these questions everyone may depend on the types of gender roles they were exposed to as a child. Gender roles can be defined as the behaviours and attitudes expected of male and female members of a society by that society.
Basically to make it clear the pattern of masculine or feminine behaviours of an individual that is defined by a particular culture and that is largely determined by a child's upbringing is what is calls gender roles. Gender roles vary. Different cultures impose different expectations upon the men and women who live in that culture. A person's sexuality comes from within him or her making a person homosexual, bisexual, or asexual, depending on the partners he or she is (or is not) attracted to. Gender role issues influence people throughout their lives; disagreements can start when someone does not accept his or her gender role.
Parents have the strongest influence on a person's perceived gender role. Parents are all children’s first teachers not only of such basic skills as talking and walking, but also of attitudes and behaviour. Some parents still hold traditional definitions of maleness and femaleness and what kinds of activities are appropriate for each.
As a result I am going to explain where the gender roles come from and further more analyse how the gender roles and attitudes are predetermined by the society and the environment. I will show this through the characters in the story “A Doll House” and “The Lady with the Dog.”
Women and men have extremely different roles in society. These gender roles are based on how people have been treated in the past and the actions in history it has taken toward gender equality. Katha Pollitt expresses her view in her article “Why boys don’t play with dolls”.
“Instead of looking at kids to prove that differences in behaviour by sex are innate, we can look at the ways we raise kids as an index
What is male? What is female? The answers to these questions everyone may depend on the types of gender roles they were exposed to as a child. Gender roles can be defined as the behaviours and attitudes expected of male and female members of a society by that society.
Basically to make it clear the pattern of masculine or feminine behaviours of an individual that is defined by a particular culture and that is largely determined by a child's upbringing is what is calls gender roles. Gender roles vary. Different cultures impose different expectations upon the men and women who live in that culture. A person's sexuality comes from within him or her making a person homosexual, bisexual, or asexual, depending on the partners he or she is (or is not) attracted to. Gender role issues influence people throughout their lives; disagreements can start when someone does not accept his or her gender role.
Parents have the strongest influence on a person's perceived gender role. Parents are all children’s first teachers not only of such basic skills as talking and walking, but also of attitudes and behaviour. Some parents still hold traditional definitions of maleness and femaleness and what kinds of activities are appropriate for each.
As a result I am going to explain where the gender roles come from and further more analyse how the gender roles and attitudes are predetermined by the society and the environment. I will show this through the characters in the story “A Doll House” and “The Lady with the Dog.”
Women and men have extremely different roles in society. These gender roles are based on how people have been treated in the past and the actions in history it has taken toward gender equality. Katha Pollitt expresses her view in her article “Why boys don’t play with dolls”.
“Instead of looking at kids to prove that differences in behaviour by sex are innate, we can look at the ways we raise kids as an index