Gender Entrapment In Education

Gender Imbedded in Our Education For ages, gender has been something policed by society, and it is something that everyone has come across. Gender is assigned based on one’s sex, there are people who identify with their assigned gender, and there are people who challenge that ideal and choose their own identity. In this essay I will explain and give examples of how gender is constructed by society, how gender is constantly significant in people’s lives, how one learns gender, and the lessons that can be learned from studying gender across cultures. For centuries, gender has been something we have used to build our entire lives around, at home, at school, even our job places. Gender is a term designed to separate female and male based on …show more content…
It can be something as simple as the little girls helping their mothers cook dinner, help do the laundry, and going to the nail salon. In contrast, the boys get to help their dad take out the trash, to the yard work, and watch the game together. Already at such a young age, children are beginning to learn the separation between the two sexes. Giraurdo (9/16) gender is acted and it becomes a norm in society, if one acts out of the cultures norm society is not acceptant of it. Gender expectation raises women and men to build on their identity following a set of guidelines and expectations throughout different stages of their lives. For example women are expected to play the role of motherhood, delicacy, and outer beauty, nurturing. Whereas men are expected to be tough, dominant, and take leading roles. Although most children begin to act their assigned gender at home it is not until they get to school where they begin to apply and act on their gender roles for a bigger social public. In Richard Mora’s article “Do it for all you Pubic Hairs! Latino Boys, Masculinity, and Puberty” the young men who are in middle school start showing some behaviors that are expected out of their gender. Puberty begins taking a role in these boys life’s and sexuality starts rising to the surface as they begin to compete amongst themselves. They compete for attention from the most girls, physical strength and physique, and these categories build on to their expectations of being part of the male gender. These attitudes and behaviors are performed in the public eye to socially be identified as successfully playing the role of a male as Mora (2012, 443) explains “ …boys puberty was a social accomplishment connected to the masculine enactments informed by the dominant genderment expectations of peers at school and in their neighborhoods..”. This is an example of the added