Essay On Gender As A Social Construct

In order to fully understand how gender is a social construct we must understand, What is gender? The definition of gender is “The state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones). What is gender expression, that being the way express and see gender including, but not limited to gender norms, gender roles. What is being said does not imply that humans are biologically different or that the social effect are not important or real. What is being said is that human have influenced and created the vision of what each gender should do and what way they should act. The idea of gender as a social construct takes into account society and not biological sex differences, varying over place and across time.
Gender from birth is taught upon us, meaning we as children are expected to act in a manner according to our gender. Although it has no correlation with sexual preference society has taught us to see any deviation from gender norms as abnormal. A little girl is expected to …show more content…
Gender expression is a social construct and it exerted in society everyday and play a role in many day to day lives. Parents play an important role in establishing society already created gender. Parents too have been taught from their parents that they must stick with the gender norms and gender roles their parents too have been taught and it goes back many generations. Sticking to gender norms has been what many have done for decades. Parents teach children that they must act acceding to their gender and to no derive from that. Generally it has been taught the men are the stronger sex and female are weaker. In older western cultures women were expected to stay at home to take care of the house while men were out working,hunting gathering money for the family. Especially prominent in colonial america. Even in today culture gender roles and norms seem inevitable to