The Male and Female Role

From a young age we are taught to behave a certain way according to our gender. Boys are taught to be masculine and that they are the providers for the family and girls are taught to be feminine that they are the ones who give comfort and emotional support; for example parents will buy boys trucks and buy girls dolls. With these continued ways of thinking males and females will always be trapped in the same roles unless something pushes them into a different role.

The female role as it has been taught is to be loving, caring, nurturing, to be patient, and to express feelings openly. The role of a female in society is to become married, stay home, take care of the children, clean the house and cook. In most households the female is the one who runs the house. She makes sure the children are taken care of, she helps them with whatever schoolwork they have, she helps with the problems they have, and she cleans up after the family. In most families mom is the person who is approached when there is a problem and a child needs to talk to someone. She is the one who makes sure that everybody in the household is alright and taken care of. Whenever something is wrong with someone in the household she notices and tries to help in anyway she can.

The male role as it has been taught is to be the man of the house, he is taught to be the provider for the family and to keep his emotions to himself. He has learned that he has to be the primary provider for the family, and if the female makes more money then it is a problem. Society has given people the idea that money equals power and the person making the money in the home has the power. Males think that because they bring the money into the household that they make final decisions on everything that happens in the household. In view of the fact that a male has learned to keep his feelings and emotions to himself it is often hard to approach the male in the house with a problem, which contributes, to females as being the ones