Gender Roles In Chinese Culture

Cultures come in various sizes, traditions, and geography. Although so different, they still share multiple similarities in beliefs and customs. One such category is gender roles and how strict they are. Gender roles are certain roles a culture expects males and females hold. For example, men are the sole breadwinners while the women have domestic roles. Despite having such similar ideas of gender roles, how strict people should adhere to them vastly differ from culture to culture. In today’s world, gender roles are under heavy scrutiny as the world moves forward toward equality. The cultures most associated with gender roles today are middle-eastern and Asiatic cultures. In these cultures a patriarchal based society is viewed as acceptable, …show more content…
The survey was made of the 22 items in the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and 49 other items from the Gender-Role Ideology in Marriage. They then separated the responses into two categories: hostile sexism and benevolent sexism. Hostile sexism was those that were against traditional gender roles; benevolent sexism was those for traditional gender roles. The results of this study found that benevolent sexism was preferred in both Chinese and American cultures; however, Americans were not as for it like the Chinese were. In the study, a surprise result was that Chinese women preferred to have mutual consideration in …show more content…
The two studies just used as examples were the negative effects gender roles had on men and women in the workplace both direct and indirect. In the first study, although not necessarily harassment, it shows how gender roles even if they are not hostile in nature are a hindrance to people; while the second study is a more hostile approach to gender roles. In the first study, there was an in depth look at the hindrance that gender roles possess even in more progressive countries. Although in the job market women are moving forward in the world, they are still held back by the culture’s ideals. The view of men being the protectors and women need protecting creates a blockade which causes them to often take a step back to even be able to balance their jobs and their culture’s expectations of them.
While in the second study it opened the door to those that are rooted in gender roles are judgmental and are quick to blame the victim for something not in their control. However, the amount of blame is not the same in every culture. Although there will always be some blame, countries like the United States of America will have various amounts of blame towards the victim; while heavily religious and traditional cultures will more often than not blame the