Gender Roles In American Culture

In the United States of America, there is a society which consists of two main (supported/normalized) genders, man and woman; and in America, there is competition between man and woman because of gender. This is a common trend among many other societies and it harms both women and men because the society sets up norms for each gender to follow. These ‘gender norms’ as defined by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center are, “a set of “rules” or ideas us the way women and men “should” look. They are not based in biology, but instead determined by a culture or society,” and they harm the way men and women go about daily life. Because the American society has gendered norms, there are also gender roles resulting of these norms. Gender roles …show more content…
A society’s culture behaves stimulates how its’ people behave. America has an individualistic culture and society, in which the importance and value of each person’s uniqueness and individualism is stressed. Another type of society’s culture is the collectivistic culture in which people are a part of different groups and collectivism is stressed as a part of one whole society. And in both societies, people are harmed by the way a society responds to each individual and the competition between genders is more complicated as all are one. There has been competition between genders since they have existed. Women and men compete among each other starting at an early age because the way they are raised as children. A few contributors to the competition in American women and men are: a patriarchal society, evolution, and social aspects of …show more content…
Blackstone of University of Maine, “expectations… based on their sex and based on each society 's values and beliefs about gender.” And in America, the expectations are set for men and women to compete because of the societal aspects on what ‘men’ and ‘women’ should seem like and how they should feel. Evolution and social aspects of gender are hand in hand because people have evolved to properly fit the expectations of the society. People have learned to fit into a society in which individuality (only to a certain new extent) is embraced. Man is competing with man because of the society in which they were raised, and how that society has told them to respond to threat, also how they have evolved to respond to a threat from another being. The people respond by competing in hopes on increasing their chances. Due to the fact that gender is based solely on an expectation that society decides how the people ought to behave and consider for their gender constructed on their biological