Gender Roles Psychology

I identified myself as female however, it was hard to understand why I had conformed to gender roles society has adopted. I recall there were many influences to behave like a “girl” for example, Barbie dolls and Bake Ovens were focused toward girls. In high school, some counselors geared their students to specific careers due to their gender. “The structures of domination become invisible because they have been internalized. Incorporated into the psyche, they appear not as manifestations of culture but as part of nature—part of us” (Gilligan, 2011).

During this stage many adolescents find the pressure concerning the internal influences of self and external influences of society. To successfully pass though this psychosocial stage the adolescent