Typical feminine sex roles might include looking after the home and family with roles such as cooking and cleaning, washing and ironing and the bulk of day-to-day childcare and arrangements.
Women have traditionally been regarded as more delicate and compassionate than men. In terms of career expectations, until fairly recently women have traditionally been associated with homemaking and a relatively narrow range of occupations such as nursing or teaching. Stereotypes for femininity include expectations to be domestic, warm, pretty, emotional, dependent, physically weak, and passive.
These implicit or explicit expectations are taught from a very early age. For instance, it is not uncommon to see family and friends play more roughly with baby
Women have traditionally been regarded as more delicate and compassionate than men. In terms of career expectations, until fairly recently women have traditionally been associated with homemaking and a relatively narrow range of occupations such as nursing or teaching. Stereotypes for femininity include expectations to be domestic, warm, pretty, emotional, dependent, physically weak, and passive.
These implicit or explicit expectations are taught from a very early age. For instance, it is not uncommon to see family and friends play more roughly with baby