The Change of Gender Roles
Gender roles are changing; there was a time when men were men and women were women. Despite women’s success, their strong and intelligent nature are still not enough to be at the same level as men; since women are more judged by their appearances. However, it is not only women who suffer from gender role pressures, but also men. Men who are too masculine are sometimes called gay, men who cries at movies are called a baby. “Suck it up!” “Real men don’t cry,” those are just a few phrases we use to pressure boy to be emotionless, which now has been the standard of manliness. Today, men’s masculinity is still overemphasized. However, over the last two decades, men have been getting more in touch with discovering their …show more content…
There has been a major variation in gender roles over historical and cultural spans. All gender roles are historically and culturally changing. There has been many scholar works, articles, journals and even films on gender roles and much of it has been addressed to the debate over biological and environmental causes fro the development of gender roles, trust me, just google it. The sociological theory of gender role that is largely used to explain gender roles is founded on two theories and these are gender role and social role theory. The gender role theory holds that boys and girls learn to conduct their biologically assigned gender through specific attitudes and behaviors (Boundless). The theory puts much focus on the role of environmental causes of gender roles as well as the impact of socialization on gender roles. Socialization is the process of transferring values, norms, behaviors and beliefs to group members, as they learn how to behave either as male or female. Therefore, gender role theory explains the underlying gender difference on the expectations conceived by the society for different behavior in many social situations. This theory thus looks at gender as being a product of socialization. In other words, the theory supposes that individuals who are socially identified as males and females occupy different …show more content…
To alight with these expectations, men would for instance develop traits that manifest or demonstrate urgency. And urgency refers to traits that are inclined to independence, competence, authority and assertiveness (Chabon 718). In that regard boys learn, mostly from the adult male figures in their lives and the society at large, that they need to be more aggressive in respect to how they relate with other and conduct themselves. And this is how they gain and develop their more instrumental roles. Females on the other hand develop traits that demonstrate communal or expressive behavior and this suppresses their aggression. Communal traits refer to the tendency to be expressive, unselfish and
Gender roles are changing; there was a time when men were men and women were women. Despite women’s success, their strong and intelligent nature are still not enough to be at the same level as men; since women are more judged by their appearances. However, it is not only women who suffer from gender role pressures, but also men. Men who are too masculine are sometimes called gay, men who cries at movies are called a baby. “Suck it up!” “Real men don’t cry,” those are just a few phrases we use to pressure boy to be emotionless, which now has been the standard of manliness. Today, men’s masculinity is still overemphasized. However, over the last two decades, men have been getting more in touch with discovering their …show more content…
There has been a major variation in gender roles over historical and cultural spans. All gender roles are historically and culturally changing. There has been many scholar works, articles, journals and even films on gender roles and much of it has been addressed to the debate over biological and environmental causes fro the development of gender roles, trust me, just google it. The sociological theory of gender role that is largely used to explain gender roles is founded on two theories and these are gender role and social role theory. The gender role theory holds that boys and girls learn to conduct their biologically assigned gender through specific attitudes and behaviors (Boundless). The theory puts much focus on the role of environmental causes of gender roles as well as the impact of socialization on gender roles. Socialization is the process of transferring values, norms, behaviors and beliefs to group members, as they learn how to behave either as male or female. Therefore, gender role theory explains the underlying gender difference on the expectations conceived by the society for different behavior in many social situations. This theory thus looks at gender as being a product of socialization. In other words, the theory supposes that individuals who are socially identified as males and females occupy different …show more content…
To alight with these expectations, men would for instance develop traits that manifest or demonstrate urgency. And urgency refers to traits that are inclined to independence, competence, authority and assertiveness (Chabon 718). In that regard boys learn, mostly from the adult male figures in their lives and the society at large, that they need to be more aggressive in respect to how they relate with other and conduct themselves. And this is how they gain and develop their more instrumental roles. Females on the other hand develop traits that demonstrate communal or expressive behavior and this suppresses their aggression. Communal traits refer to the tendency to be expressive, unselfish and