Gender Identity
I am from a conservative Asian-American family and part of being in this family was having a strong sense of who and what you are. I remember as a child growing up I never had any other feelings of being anything other than female. Around the age of 5 when I started noticing the opposite sex, I can tell in my mind this is a boy and I am attracted to him. Having a sense of being female and what this meant to me was how I identified my gender (Ramirez, 2015). In today’s society, gender roles and gender identities are often confused. Gender roles are set of norms society has created that are deemed acceptable for males and females (Ramirez, 2015). This approach creates a set of boundaries to a person’s identity due to their adoption …show more content…
In the United States, masculine roles are often associated to strength and dominance while feminine roles are associated to nurturing and subordination (Ramirez, 2015). Across the borders, men are generally working daily to provide for the family and women are stay-at-home mothers to tend for the children. Although times have changed and more women are in the workforce, gender socialization still remains.
Society uses gender socialization to make gender-role standards for men and women. Gender socialization often correlates with age, gender, and education which in today’s terms, creates a gender gap in the work force. Although the United States have come along way from fighting for equality, there are still certain discriminants between men and women and how it affects the views of gender socialization.
Gender Roles in the Vietnamese …show more content…
Gender identity is often developed by the time a child reaches the toddler age. By this time, they should have a clear understanding of distinguishing between masculinity and femininity through social roles, customs, and behaviors upon their households (Ramirez, 2015). As a child growing up, I clearly knew what gender I was. I had a strong sense of what being a girl meant and what being a boy is. I knew that being a girl meant having long hair, wearing dresses, and liking the color pink (in my mind that is what I believe being a girl meant at the time). I remember growing up and wearing dresses and having my legs open and my parents would say to me, “You are a girl and you need to sit like one!” Now that I think of it, what does sitting like a girl even
I am from a conservative Asian-American family and part of being in this family was having a strong sense of who and what you are. I remember as a child growing up I never had any other feelings of being anything other than female. Around the age of 5 when I started noticing the opposite sex, I can tell in my mind this is a boy and I am attracted to him. Having a sense of being female and what this meant to me was how I identified my gender (Ramirez, 2015). In today’s society, gender roles and gender identities are often confused. Gender roles are set of norms society has created that are deemed acceptable for males and females (Ramirez, 2015). This approach creates a set of boundaries to a person’s identity due to their adoption …show more content…
In the United States, masculine roles are often associated to strength and dominance while feminine roles are associated to nurturing and subordination (Ramirez, 2015). Across the borders, men are generally working daily to provide for the family and women are stay-at-home mothers to tend for the children. Although times have changed and more women are in the workforce, gender socialization still remains.
Society uses gender socialization to make gender-role standards for men and women. Gender socialization often correlates with age, gender, and education which in today’s terms, creates a gender gap in the work force. Although the United States have come along way from fighting for equality, there are still certain discriminants between men and women and how it affects the views of gender socialization.
Gender Roles in the Vietnamese …show more content…
Gender identity is often developed by the time a child reaches the toddler age. By this time, they should have a clear understanding of distinguishing between masculinity and femininity through social roles, customs, and behaviors upon their households (Ramirez, 2015). As a child growing up, I clearly knew what gender I was. I had a strong sense of what being a girl meant and what being a boy is. I knew that being a girl meant having long hair, wearing dresses, and liking the color pink (in my mind that is what I believe being a girl meant at the time). I remember growing up and wearing dresses and having my legs open and my parents would say to me, “You are a girl and you need to sit like one!” Now that I think of it, what does sitting like a girl even