Gender Influences On Gender Roles In Today's Society

Since birth people are influenced and made aware of expectations that society holds due to the sex they were born with. The way all people dress think, behave and interact is due to an unwritten law code that people must follow and not stray, from their gender roles. Gender roles are defined on Oxford Dictionaries as, “The role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to their gender, determined by the prevailing cultural norms.” From an early age, people are taught to conform to society's standards are stereotypes of how men and women should act and behave. It is widely believed by society that gender roles serve as a “framework” for one's self-image.
Kids today rely on gender roles to help them transition through the different stages of life, specifically into adulthood. Society shows the world with many stereotypes what is deemed “acceptable.” An example of this would be, boys play with mud, monster trucks and action figures. Girls must play with princesses', love the color pink, and want to dress up. What if these roles are reversed? Surely that is not acceptable to society. Straying from your social norm brings concern from peers and you get treated like a foreign object.
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In today’s society women and men in diverse countries and cultures are treated differently than they are here in America. Society calls this, Gender Appropriation. Gender appropriation is another issue that this society has a problem with. This topic is usually described as taking a genders identity based on what individuals want the person to be. Men decided being a woman is a performance and that women will be worshiped only if they have essential qualities beneficial to the man. Another example is, femininity performed by men is transgressive and edgy while performed by a woman, its “nasty” and a barrier to a woman’s