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Gender Role Differences

Uploaded by gracewolfpack0712 on Nov 17, 2015

Gender roles are learned mainly through social interaction rather then that you are related to. When people are born, you have a very little concept of gender and what it actually means. You learn what the proper behavior is through social interactions and through relationships with your families and other peers around you. Gender identity is constructed through the communication experienced through the social media, parents, friends at school, by coworkers, and even at home. There is a difference in how children are raised in a society, which ends up reflecting on how they act as they grow older depending on what their culture might be. Society changes the attitudes and views on life of people, much more than their biological make-up will ever do.
At a young age, I was influenced to act in specific way by my peers and the people I was around including family. I learned that a child could be made fun of when doing things considered not typical of their gender. For example, peers can tease a boy if he likes to play in the kitchen or play with dolls. The influence that society has on children makes children only want to play with certain toys that are meant for their gender no matter what they might like. There are advertisements on TV that show specific toys for each gender and show only girls or boys playing with them. An example of this is certain video games are only portrayed for the males to play with, and not girls even though they aren’t just for boys to play with. In our society it is perceived that girls are less athletically inclined than boys, because of their genetic make-up. In early childhood boys are taught to be more aggressive because it is expected that boys should be more athletic than girls because they are what make up most of the athletics broadcasted on TV. Girls also are encouraged to express their feelings and to cry openly because they don’t have to be as strong as men because we can share our emotions. Then there are boys who are influenced to never cry or complain, but to “tough it out,” or “be a man” because in our society they are the stronger ones who everybody leads on when they need help. In our society there is a particular reason why...

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Uploaded by:   gracewolfpack0712

Date:   11/17/2015

Category:   Reflection

Length:   3 pages (662 words)

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