Gender Roles In Culture And Culture

From the century, the roles of gender are created by culture and society. The roles of males and females begin in the mother 's womb. For example, if a couple is having a female baby, they properly decorate the baby’s room with pink and if a couple is having a male baby, they properly decorate with blue. From our early age, we learned that pink is for girls and blue is for boys. Also, I have heard folks saying, “Men do not cry” if they see little boy is crying. Therefore, unfortunately, we learned the roles of gender in our childhood from culture, society and family and it passes through the generations. The roles of gender can be affected by the cultures. In most western cultures, women and men have same equality, but in some cultures, women’s lives are in the hands of men. Women do not have the freedom to make their own decision. For example, In Family Violence, by Nancy Dziedzic, she talks about honor killings. According to Dziedizc, there are“Honor killings—in which a girl or women is murdered by male relatives or their associates because she has allegedly shamed the family by dating a boy outside religion, getting pregnant outside marriage, or

When we are children, we learn the roles of men and women from our families and later, we learn from our cultures and societies. In some part of the world, women are still treated like a property because of their cultures. Societies think men can do anything, but not women. In potter essay, YesAllWomen, she talks about, she never had the freedom to walk home alone, but her brother had. Potter says, “But when I tried to do so at night, my parent always made sure someone accompanied me” (326). Potter wanted the power her brother had as a male, but since she was a woman she did not. Unfortunately, my mom never had a chance to go to the school because she was a woman, but I am glad that our family came to the United States of