Gender Roles And Gender Analysis

There is a little girl in kindergarten; she is wearing a pretty flowered dress, with pink tights. Most of the human population would expect her to be playing with dolls because of the gender roles they were taught in the society and culture we grew up in. Well this little girl is climbing a tree and most likely going to rip her tights. She loves wear dresses and loves the feeling of looking down from the tops of trees. Little does she know that as she grows up her parents, culture and society will teach her that she needs to sit proper and not get dirty. Does she conform, or not, we will never know. Some children have the voice to speak and not let gender roles interfere with their soul and some confirm to the culture around them. On the other …show more content…
My sister and I had a girl names, dresses in our closet, was told never to be dirty, always be polite, do not spit, do not hit another person even if they hit you back, football is for boys, jeans are for boy and so on. On the other hand all of the things we were told not to do my brother did them freely but he was never to wear pink, had to sit still in school “like the girls,” was made to try all sports and so on. This was normal to me and I did not have a problem growing up with these rules, however I never understood that it might have harmed or lead my life path in a different direction. I believe that gender roles were taught at home, via the media and in grade school however in my life experience the impact it made in my life was in middle and high school. I remember wanting to try out for football because my dad loved football and I wanted a closer relationship with him, I never tried out because I was afraid of what my family and friends would think of me. Girls ' education and gender equality, an article by UNICEF asserts “While gender parity has improved, barriers and bottlenecks around gender disparities and discrimination remain in place, especially at the secondary school level and among the most marginalized children.” This reminds me that we need to look at today’s culture and teach the next generation that gender roles are …show more content…
In Gender Roles by Boundless reminds us in 1955 of the sociologist Talcott Parson, who “developed a model of nuclear families in the United States that addressed gender roles. His first model involved total role segregation; men and women would be trained and educated in gender-specific institutions, and the and high professional qualifications and the workplace would be intended for men” (Boundless). Also including women to be homemakers and rear the child and men would go to work, only do some housework when it was ok with him and his word would be the final say (Boundless). However in his second model he include that equality for all men and women, which included education, childrearing and housework (Boundless). I believe these types of gender role implications impacted the children of this era because if I asked anyone from that era they will remember home economics fro the girls and woodshop for the boys. Although this has changed in America nowadays, the children now are still be raising by the children that we taught many gender roles and were raised by parent who followed nuclear family models like Talcott Parson. Sociologists are people who study human behavior, the culture people life and evaluate societies. In my opinion we can clearly see these types of studies could have set the tone to the gender roles we see in today