My View Of Gender Essay

Gender is not all about our internal and external sex organs, but it is also about what is expected of us as people within society with different forms of roles, behaviors, and activities. Throughout my life the one person who has shaped my view of gender within society is my grandmother. Although I may disagree with her on many issues, she is the only person surrounding me that had such strong opinions about a women’s place in society. My grandmother is the main person, alongside my mother, who has shaped my view of what a woman should be. My grandmother met my grandfather at the age of fourteen, he was twenty-five. They had their first child together when my mother was about fifteen or sixteen, not much later after they met. My grandparents …show more content…
My mother would cook almost all the meals everyday of the week. However, unlike my grandmother, my mother began working at the earliest age she could. By the time that I came into the world my mother had a successful paying job as an accountant. My father worked as a construction worker from a very young age as well, however, at some times of the year my father’s area of work is rather slow. Therefore, in a sense my mother is the steady worker in the household. My parents taught me to play a different role as a woman as I grew up into a young adult. As I grew up, my parents told me to do well in school so I could go to college and then have a successful career. My parents wanted me to strive to be an independent woman and not to rely on a man to pay my bills or much less do anything for me. My father always told me, “ I just don’t want you to have to need a man.” Nevertheless I am sure he would love it if I never got married, I know, in saying that my father just does not want me to have to need a man to buy the things I wish to have in life, such as a new car. That is why, my parents always wanted me to go to college, they saved and put money away for me from a very early age of me being