What Is Gender Stereotypes?

Throughout my time in middle and high school, I was always surrounded with people like me, minorities but with the dream of succeeding. In high school I have noticed that more, but I have also noticed that something is holding people back. I have groups of friends that were born in the United States, and others were born in Dominican Republic or a Caribbean country. But the point is that whether we were born here, or over there, there are different traditional values pointed to gender roles within the families.
Thinking of what I wanted to write, I thought about not only what affected me, but others as well. Although gender roles within my family aren't set since its a household of women, what did affect my academic achievement was stereotypes …show more content…
For example, within a Latino family, there are roles set depending on the gender. For a daughter, the family will expect her to clean, cook, take care of the house. For a son, the family will expect him to work and bring everything to the table. As found in the article titled “Latino Attitudes about Women and Society.” 55% of Latino men and women claim that it is better for the family if the father is outside working and the mother stays home and takes care of the children, which provides the child with the mentality of prioritizing one thing over the other, and following the footsteps of their parents.
In other Latino families, they truly believe that education is important, while some may agree with that, but also expect their children to respect the roles. When you have teenagers that are trying to do both, with all the stress, they will try and maybe succeed in giving one or the other up, school or family gender roles. With the pressure of their family members reminding them to be a certain type of man or woman, they tend to behave the way their parents want them to, they tend to forget about what’s most important, their