Gender Roles And Gender Stereotypes

Name three words that describe a female and name three words that describe a male.
All of the words you named were most likely stereotypes of men and women in society. A gender stereotype is a simplistic generalization about gender attributes, differences, and roles of individuals or groups. Gender roles are expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females. For example, in the United States, toughness, or masculine, describes men and tenderness describes females. Gender roles are very different across different cultures. Also some gender roles have changed throughout the years. Gender stereotypes and gender roles can be either positive or negative, and accurate or inaccurate. I am going to talk briefly …show more content…
In this study they found that boys were typically high on the scale for athletic ability, coolness, toughness, social skills, and success in relationships with girls. On the other hand, the girls were high on the scale for popularity based on their parents’ economic background and their own physical appearance, social skills, and academic success. These finding line up with society’s gender stereotypes and gender roles for males and females. Such as the expectations for females to be domestic, warm, pretty, emotional, dependent, physically weak and passive. Where as, men are expected to be more competitive and less emotional then …show more content…
That’s why this topic was so interesting to me. I never learned about gender roles and gender stereotypes in school nor did my parents ever talk to me about it from what I remember. This topic in the Racial and Ethnic Groups textbook opened my eyes to how often it has affected or is affecting my life. Gender roles and gender stereotypes are implanted in many social institutions, such as family, education, religion, politics, the economy, medicine, and the mass media. As a future teacher, I need to know about gender roles and gender stereotypes and how they may affect my students. Gender roles and gender stereotypes affect everyone very differently, and it is important to think about the positive and negative effects that of gender role and gender stereotypes has, on our youth. A school is where gender roles are developed, and a school should also be where they are learned about. Therefore, I think parents and teachers should teach about gender roles and gender stereotypes so students are aware of them. This way students will understand the positives and negatives sides to them but also realize that they do not describe everyone. Gender roles are just a broad and general description of a specific gender to be aware of, but not dwell