Essay On Gender Roles

Gender is based upon sex stereotyping and because gender exist within a patriarchal context the construction of gender is meant to maintain male dominance over females and female submission under males. Understanding this means that femininity, which is basically a cultural conceptualization of how females should socially perform and then you have masculinity, which we know as the male equivalent, are not ‘choice’ performances but conditioned ones; In the same sense of pavlov’s dog experiment, society is classical conditioned into these mindsets/standards. This also means that femininity is supportive of male dominance as is masculinity. In other words: femininity was not created to 'empower’ females but to dis-empower us and masculinity means

They are perpetuated and enforced by the mass media and community usually many ways, some which are evident and others which are more subtle. In many communities, there is a strong trend to overstate these sex roles, and it appears to regularly jump from a valid surveillance to a false conclusion. Gender roles can be described as a set of behaviors and attributes that are standard for every gender in a community. Gender role stereotypes are broadly held beliefs about those behaviors and attributes the stereotypes to a great extent become the roles. Community forces people into some roles simply by anticipating that those roles are appropriate and enforcing them. Generally, the gender roles we speak of are common in modern Western society. These roles recommend that males should be bossy, aggressive, and better at the maths and sciences, and they should become victorious in their professions, and should manage and suppress their emotions. Females, on the contrary, should be obedient, nurturing, gentle, superior at languages and the humanities, emotional, and eager of nothing more than a content family and a husband to provide for her, while she remains at home and tends the house. These gender typed roles are affected and reinforced by the mass media and society usually in many ways, some evident and others more