After reading Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes by Aaron Devor and The Gender’s Blur: Where Does Biology End and Society Take Over? by Deborah Blum, I recognize that social and familial beliefs in gender differences definitely shaped my perception of gender images and roles during my upbringing. There is an extreme distinction between being a male and being a female. When parents have a little girl, they would raise her as a girl. Since I was a kid, I was told how I should dress, speak, move, and behave in a way of a female. Being a girl, I were recommended to wear dress instead of pants, speak softly, and stay away from boys’ games.…
I also know that it is not uncommon for a single Father to be more than capable of raising a child and show just as much love, affection and care to their child as a female would have, ultimately, meaning males are natural care givers just like females. The fact that this occurs in nature, where there are no social constructs, but simply “instinct”, shows us how much we are consumed by ideas and concepts created by people, these social constructs corrupt our lives. We need to be open-minded as individuals, in truth everything in society is a social construct, such as the idea of race, we are all the same, race has no biological substance and if people stopped supporting an “idea”, we would not have discrimination. In regards to sexual identity, the norms we have created, the ideas behind gender are all a form of social construct. These ideas came from people, and as we can see these ideas are not consistent with nature. If everyone simply opened up their mind and took the time to understand each other we would not have violence, chaos and I truly believe we would have peace, these social constructs narrow our perspective of the…
I think boys are in trouble, and it is boys we need to turn our attention to, because we took too more our concern over the status of girls raised by the women's movement. Boys aren’t the man, they are still adolescent, and need our care and love as little girls. Like the authors said that boys and girls are different in the emotional and social, boys more weak to girls in physiological and psychological in the early age, so parents and teachers should give more education and encourage, but punishment only. I consider parents and teachers also should learn more about boys and…
Today generation is very fast and like men, women are also coming in the front to compete with men and they are really doing well. If we give them the proper guidance like they can prove that women are in no way less then men, and we should be proud to say that human beings are developing, and not men or women only. Society would answer this question by saying, "No, men and women are not equal," but I have a different opinion on this matter. Men and women are different in different ways, but all humans have things that differ between them. When it comes down to it, we are all humans and not one gender is greater than the other. Women do all these things yet they don't get any praise for it whereas a man does one thing and the then the whole world revolves around him.This is basically saying that women get treated like dirt where as they do a lot of things that a man can't do. Women must be equal to men and they are equal to men.We should support girls education and make the world a better place to live as expected and if women are given equal rights to men definitely the development of the world also will be equal and hence we support this. I believe that women are not treated as equal as men eventhough they should.…
The second main point I'll be discussing is the young person growing up in a family with a singe father or mother. There are some things a mother can and cannot teach to her son or dauther and a father vise verse.That young person can even get bullied because he or she doesn't have the right gender parent during a school event. That young…
While reading Ann Owen’s article “Inequality in Children’s Contexts: Income Segregation of Households With and Without Children” I became very interested in the relationship between inequality and income segregation. Owens found that among families with children income segregation is driven by an increased income inequality along with school district options. Income segregation between neighborhoods rose twenty percent from 1990 to 2010 and it was around twice as high for households that have children versus those that do not. The income of a family alone can tell us a fair amount of why the schools can be so segregated.…
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Our gender roles have much to do with how our cultures believe they need to be. Often times we behave the way we are told to or how society expects us to. Parents are responsible for nurturing their children to be the gender they were born with. They do this by the toys they buy for their children, the clothes they dress them in and the way they teach them to act. (Rathus et al., 2011, pg. 168). This however does not guarantee that the child will relate to the gender they were born with. It is a scientific fact that homosexuals are not raised, they are born. Parents teach them how they want them to act, but they will not sexually relate to their gender.…
In my opinion, traditional ideas about gender role socialization in childhood remain strong in U.S. culture today because of our constant interactions with others in society of what is considered accepted socialization. In turn, we tend to follow the accepted norm to avoid rejection or being labeled by our peers, such as being viewed as feminine because men wash dishes or women not seen as gentle because of their CEO status. However, in time I do foresee that they will give way toward a more egalitarian norm. Such examples may include women gaining the right to vote, own property, and the large percentage of women in today’s society entering male dominant fields such as a defense lawyer or engineer. Overall, these such changes take time, especially…
Growing up, my parents followed the stereotypical gender roles for my brother and I. From the moment we were born he was put in blue and I was put in pink. He was “a little ladies man” whereas I was “going to make some man real happy one day.” My parent’s didn’t mean any harm, they didn’t know any better because they were raised the same way; however, this type of thinking is what causes inequality between the genders in society. In Judith Lorber’s article The Social Construction of Gender she states, “Once a child’s gender is evident, others treat those in one gender differently from those in the other, and the children respond to the different treatment by feeling different and behaving differently” (Kirk 65). In simpler terms, since the…
Many don’t see that there is a gender difference in society some would even argue that women have their duties and men have their duties in society. Many don’t understand that men and women are the same and equal in abilities. Women should not be looked down upon for their albites because they are female. In Sweden there is a great promotion for gender equality, according to Sweden’s national website women are being the breadwinners of the family while husbands are taking on the stay at home father figure. I think it’s important that we educate others on gender inequality, in my opinion I believe there is not a great emphasis or talk about gender inequality unless you go onto college and study it. I also believe that if parental figures or role model portrayed and advocated gender inequality many people and kids will look up to them and follow them and their ideas. This can be beneficial because it can change the way society views gender. Another recommendation I have it to protest for equal gender rights. While there are some group and organizations out there like feminist promoting, society and the government need to take into consideration of their ideas instead we are still fixated on traditional gender…
The socialization process for teaching gender roles begins almost right after birth, when infant girls are typically held more gently and treated more carefully than are infant boys, and continues when the child grows, with both mothers and fathers usually playing more roughly with their male children than with their female children. As the child continues to grow and mature, little boys are typically allowed to roam a wider territory without permission than are little girls. Similarly, boys are typically expected to run errands earlier than are girls. Most sons are told that "real boys don't cry" and are encouraged to control their softer emotions, girls are taught not to fight and not to show anger or aggression. In general, girls are taught to engage in expressive, or emotion-oriented, behaviors, while boys are taught to engage in instrumental, or goal-oriented, behaviors. When the disparity between the way they teach and treat their daughters and sons is pointed out to many parents, they often respond that the sexes are naturally different not only biologically but behaviorally as well. So basically gender roles all depend on how and where you were raised. You don’t have to do anything just because people say “ It is the…
He is the God of his own little world, he directly tells all what to do in his world, and he brings millions of people together around the world for one man, and his name is Christof. In the movie The Truman Show Truman is living in a world where everyone knows his life is shown on worldwide television but him. He lives in a giant dome created by a man named Christof. He is also the director of the Show. He could be looked at as the god of this small world he created because he controls everything that goes on inside the set and he basically rules out Truman and the actor’s lives for them. Even though the viewers enjoy watching the show a lot of the viewers don’t really know Christof and they might have some questions about his viewpoints and motives. People might wonder why he decided to broadcast a random person’s entire life in a fake world, why he would think that he is morally correct, or why he would sacrifice so many things in life for this show.…
Both females and males should be able to have the same rights and be equal especially the right to free and equal education for all. That said females should be able to feel accepted in school and not feel like they are not allowed to learn which they do have the right to learn whatever they want to learn and not be criticized for it. This gender discrimination has been going on for decades and it needs to stop but, this paper is not about stopping discrimination against one specific gender it's about the right to a free and non-criticized education for…
The article it’s mainly about an investigation of the influence of social and cultural factors in the different patterns of music taste. The author choose a sample from the Dutch population in order to study the social influence in this matter, having as a result that people with access to higher education are more likely to be omnivores as quoted below.…