Gender Roles In My Big Fat Greek Wedding

The movie of My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a story of a traditional Greek Family and their thirty year old daughter Toula who had pass the age of getting married and starts a family of her own . Toula’s and her family lived in a normal middle class neighbourhood in a traditional Greek home with Greek statues on their front lawn, and owned a nice Greek restaurant name the Dancing Zorbas where she work as a seating hostess (My)
Although, traditional roles may be a thing of the pass . Most traditional families expect that their children should follow traditional norms and values, and even though, Toula wish she had a different life , was braver,and even prettier, nothing never changes for her. Instead she was expected to go to Greek school, learn Greek so that she could write her mother -in - law letters, educate non- Greek about being Greek , married young like her sister, became a Greek baby machine and spoke two volumes loud and louder (My) Gender roles can also play a vital part in society. Gus Portakalos thinks that a man is the head and that nice Greek girl who don’t find a husband works in their family restaurant , and that it’s a mistake to educate women,and did not think Toula needed to go to college to learn computers when she could run the family restaurant (My) Often times family expectation for their children can

Although, the difference between males and females in society is based on socialization. A lot of women faced discrimination in society and was seen as incapable or unfit to run family