Children are being raised to adhere to gender norms. Many parents refuse to raise their children to be gender neutral because they believe gender is something that can be clearly defined. Parents pressure their children to succumb to biased expectations by imposing gender roles.
Parents are the first people to impose gender norms on their children. It begins before birth, at the moment the baby 's sex is revealed. "It 's a boy! Let 's paint the nursery blue!" "It 's a girl! Let 's paint the nursery pink!" This seemingly innocent decision creates the first expectation, the expectation for the child to play the part of their gender. At birth the infant boy is swaddled in a blue blanket, the infant girl in a pink. As the children grow a bit …show more content…
Before the parents know it the children are starting college. The son is expected to rush a fraternity, and encouraged to meet girls. The girl is expected to rush a sorority, and encouraged to meet a boy. After college the children are expected to find jobs. The boy is expected to get a job in order to provide for his future family. The girl is expected to get a job until she finds a husband to support her future family. The boy soon becomes a father, and the girl soon becomes a mother. They too expect their children to conform to the roles of their gender, thus creating a vicious cycle uneasily broken.
Having grown up with three brothers I 've personally experienced a difference in treatment based solely off of my sex. For example, when my mother wasn 't home my father expected me to prepare lunch for my brothers. They claimed to be clueless when it came to cooking, and learning was an impossibility being that they considered themselves to be hopeless in the kitchen. I often voiced that the only thing making them hopeless was their thought process. Aside from being expected to take part …show more content…
They also believe that parents are beginning to raise their sons and daughters with equal expectations. But just because the topic is being talked about more openly and frequently does not mean action is being taken to normalize said topic. Society is merely beginning to shed light on the difference in expectations of the sexes. Parents are still dressing their newborn boys in blue, and their newborn girls in pink. They are still encouraging their sons to be masculine, and their daughters to be feminine. Thus, the argument that society is rapidly evolving is simply not viable, being that; a cycle may be easily stirred, but it 's not easily
Parents are the first people to impose gender norms on their children. It begins before birth, at the moment the baby 's sex is revealed. "It 's a boy! Let 's paint the nursery blue!" "It 's a girl! Let 's paint the nursery pink!" This seemingly innocent decision creates the first expectation, the expectation for the child to play the part of their gender. At birth the infant boy is swaddled in a blue blanket, the infant girl in a pink. As the children grow a bit …show more content…
Before the parents know it the children are starting college. The son is expected to rush a fraternity, and encouraged to meet girls. The girl is expected to rush a sorority, and encouraged to meet a boy. After college the children are expected to find jobs. The boy is expected to get a job in order to provide for his future family. The girl is expected to get a job until she finds a husband to support her future family. The boy soon becomes a father, and the girl soon becomes a mother. They too expect their children to conform to the roles of their gender, thus creating a vicious cycle uneasily broken.
Having grown up with three brothers I 've personally experienced a difference in treatment based solely off of my sex. For example, when my mother wasn 't home my father expected me to prepare lunch for my brothers. They claimed to be clueless when it came to cooking, and learning was an impossibility being that they considered themselves to be hopeless in the kitchen. I often voiced that the only thing making them hopeless was their thought process. Aside from being expected to take part …show more content…
They also believe that parents are beginning to raise their sons and daughters with equal expectations. But just because the topic is being talked about more openly and frequently does not mean action is being taken to normalize said topic. Society is merely beginning to shed light on the difference in expectations of the sexes. Parents are still dressing their newborn boys in blue, and their newborn girls in pink. They are still encouraging their sons to be masculine, and their daughters to be feminine. Thus, the argument that society is rapidly evolving is simply not viable, being that; a cycle may be easily stirred, but it 's not easily