Ideology In Gender Roles

There is a common notion that male and female have different expectations on their love companion. Man intends to be more favor on women who is nurturing, expressing, cooperating, and being sensitive to the needs of others. On the other hand, Woman seems to be more prefer man will be active, aggressive, dominant, and ambitious. These kind of "masculinity" and "feminity" characteristics are regarded as opposites, which distinctly provided bias on people’s perception toward either female or male. In other words, this behavior and attribute expectations on one’s gender role is “gender stereotype”. Gender roles are socially constructed, not biological naturally given. All human behavior is shaped mainly by the pre-existing cultural factors, in

They will indicate their child that doing what kind of certain things is more appropriate for their gender. Under these circumstances, the ideology of patriarchy is easier to root in the children mind, especially with the traditional Chinese culture which is a patriarchy society. The patriarchal ideology exaggerates biological differences between men and women making certain that men always catapult in the dominant roles and women always remain the subordinate roles. As the above mentioned, the gender role of male seems to be appeared rigid because of "masculine" attribute is involved to reject all "feminine" characteristic, then again, female appear to be more leeway in their gender role. (Tierney, 1999) With regard, these roles are essential for upholding the idea of patriarchy, it constitutes social standards that sex and gender must always match up. People with male anatomy must be male in gender identity and gender role, and people with female anatomy must be female in gender identity and gender role. (Wolf, 2008) Therefore, we are taught to be gender stereotype in the moment of we

The discourse from media which contributes to inject gender stereotype ideology to our mind. Besides, the discourse from family implement the thought of patriarchy, it turns out to a gender stereotype. Also, the discourse from the capitalist idea of society involved to produce gender stereotype to us as well. These are the discursive practice that retaining the “truth” on gender stereotype. Thus, we should revisit the idea of gender stereotype, to understand that neither male must be strong nor female must be feeble. We should be what we want to