Examples Of Gender Roles

Chapter Four

Gender roles - pg130- sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one’s status as male or female.

Example: When I was younger, maybe around the age of five my mom would give me everything pink. There was this one time when we went to the mall to pick out a backpack for kindergarten. I wanted one of those rolling backpacks with a princess on it. When I was little, I loved princesses. Princesses were every little girls dream. My mom and I went to the mall, and went into the Disney store to pick out my backpack. Eventually I got the backpack with Mulan on it and I thought I was the coolest kid ever. When I went to school the next day, the teachers and all my friends told me that my backpack was cute. The Mulan backpack was pink

Gender roles are socially constructed. One can say that gender roles are nature, but sociologists believe that sex is nature while gender is socially constructed. Since people are categorized into a gender group, female or male, the gender norms of society ties into whom they are. My example is an example of gender role because it proved the society norms that girls and boys have different standards. Girls can like pink and princesses, but when a boy likes it they are thought to be the outcast. This is because society has built up certain standards and norms that different gender roles have to

While I was there, I remembered that one day my cousin came home covered with blood all over her right side. She left to pick up my nephew from school, but came back with deep scrapes on her knee and elbow. Immediately, we asked her what happened. She was parking her car on the street across from where we lived. Just as she was about to cross the street, a motorcycle zoomed by and snatched her handbag. My cousin had no time to think, but because of her reflexes she held on to her bag. The motorcyclist dragged her, while she fell down on the road holding onto her bag. The motorcyclist did not let go. Eventually my cousin could not hold on any longer, so she let go. Her entire right side was filled with scratches and scrapes that looked extremely painful. Later, we found out that she held onto her bag because she had just got her paycheck that day. The motorcyclist took off with what had belonged to my cousin and left her with scars and