Gender Roles Through Society Len’s
“Gender empowerment doesn’t mean discrimination, it only means equality.” - Mohith Agadi
In today’s generation, children are exposed to many different things, as they are transforming into young adults. Some issues that the youth are dealing with are: drug useage, gun violence, stereotyping, and sexuality (transgender). All these topics have huge implication on adolescents. It is important for mothers to be involved in their children’s lives to prevent these negative influences. Being without parental roles in the home can affect all youth later in life. As a result of the lack of attention and discipline in the home children react in behaving badly in and outside the home. Some reasons why children are …show more content…
Being that there is a huge decrease of male roles in the household creates insecurity, sex confusion, domestication, bullying, and bad behavior. Voisin, Neilands, and Hunnicutt argues whether the relationship between violence exposure and school engagement is conciliated by psychological problem behaviors and whether such relationships are gendered among African American adolescents. Because community violence exposure often tend to be higher around populated areas, such as; shootings, stabbing, physical threats and robberies. Children at a young age are exposed to community violence and can possibly have an strong effect later in life (1-2). If both mother and father are home with their children instead of working long hours, that could possibly prevent the list of issues. Today’s father is no longer always the traditional married breadwinner and disciplinarian in the family. He can be single or married; externally employed or stay-at home; gay or straight; an adoptive or step-parent; and a more than capable caregiver to children facing physical or psychological challenges. According to Talcott Parsons, a sociologists, developed a model nuclear families in the United States that addressed gender roles. He trained and educated men and women in specific fields according to their gender. Women fundamentally focused on housekeeping, childcare, children’s education. Whereas, men focused more on working, providing the family, and being a husband. Apparently, in today’s society things have changed drastically. Women are in the workforce more, doing a man’s job and still getting unequal pay. In the workplace, discrimination, harassment, and inequalities has become a huge conflict, even though both men and women are discriminated against, some companies are taking steps toward making the workplace fair and
“Gender empowerment doesn’t mean discrimination, it only means equality.” - Mohith Agadi
In today’s generation, children are exposed to many different things, as they are transforming into young adults. Some issues that the youth are dealing with are: drug useage, gun violence, stereotyping, and sexuality (transgender). All these topics have huge implication on adolescents. It is important for mothers to be involved in their children’s lives to prevent these negative influences. Being without parental roles in the home can affect all youth later in life. As a result of the lack of attention and discipline in the home children react in behaving badly in and outside the home. Some reasons why children are …show more content…
Being that there is a huge decrease of male roles in the household creates insecurity, sex confusion, domestication, bullying, and bad behavior. Voisin, Neilands, and Hunnicutt argues whether the relationship between violence exposure and school engagement is conciliated by psychological problem behaviors and whether such relationships are gendered among African American adolescents. Because community violence exposure often tend to be higher around populated areas, such as; shootings, stabbing, physical threats and robberies. Children at a young age are exposed to community violence and can possibly have an strong effect later in life (1-2). If both mother and father are home with their children instead of working long hours, that could possibly prevent the list of issues. Today’s father is no longer always the traditional married breadwinner and disciplinarian in the family. He can be single or married; externally employed or stay-at home; gay or straight; an adoptive or step-parent; and a more than capable caregiver to children facing physical or psychological challenges. According to Talcott Parsons, a sociologists, developed a model nuclear families in the United States that addressed gender roles. He trained and educated men and women in specific fields according to their gender. Women fundamentally focused on housekeeping, childcare, children’s education. Whereas, men focused more on working, providing the family, and being a husband. Apparently, in today’s society things have changed drastically. Women are in the workforce more, doing a man’s job and still getting unequal pay. In the workplace, discrimination, harassment, and inequalities has become a huge conflict, even though both men and women are discriminated against, some companies are taking steps toward making the workplace fair and