Masculinity In Canada

Geoffrey Canada wrote in his book Reaching up for Manhood, "The image of male as strong is mixed with the image of male as violent. Male as virile gets mixed with male as promiscuous. Males as intelligent often gets mixed with male as arrogant, racist, and sexist." In this way many people define the masculinity and try to conform boys in these stereotypes which negative influence on boy’s development and behaviors. This image of masculinity started in antiquity and is still predominate in our days. Gender roles are distributed when babies are born by their parents then by the society. All these roles restrict men to behave like women and reverse. To have healthy society with healthy men we need to reexamine our attitude on the male education.
Gender Norms describes physical features, social behaviors and psychological characteristics that allow us to determine differences between a man and a woman. These characteristics are set in our society, by our relatives and friends. At a young age children learn that there are different expectations based on their gender. The boys are dressed in blue color and girls in pink. Parents buy different toys for boys cars and for girls dolls. Traditionally, fathers teach boys how to fix and build things, mothers teach girls how to cook, sew, and keep house. Children then receive parental approval when they conform to gender expectations and adopt culturally accepted and conventional roles. When they grow up they chose different professions, men - Judge, Military, Police, Fireman and other and women – Nursery, Stewardess, Secretary and other. At work, people also have presumptions about power, the division of labor, and organizational structures. All these roles what we play during our life make us different of each other.