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    Why Do Gender Roles Exist

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    traditional gender roles exist? 21st century- we see modern world full of equality and breaking stereotypes. People are not told what they have to do, who has to do it and ,furthermore , what specific tasks are prepared for men and for women. From the beginning of time, people were divided by their biological characters and were taught about traditional gender roles. Traditional roles of men and women were changed because of fighting for equality. What does gender role mean? Gender…

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    overcome them as an explanation of how the colonists were successful, while Ulrich’s A Midwife’s Tale analyzes the journal of a woman 's personal experiences of living within such a colony. While they differ in their delivery of explaining their societies, they both display levels of inequality and stress the importance of each member…

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    played an important role not only in religion, but also in politics, culture, and art. They were very significant and influential figures in society which through stories and narratives about them, led people to justify how the world was created which they implement that on how societies should be created. This led to the justification and validation of hierarchical societies, rules and regulations in relation to genders, and the distinctions of gender roles in the home and in society. Two major…

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    Gender, Rose, and relations will always be an important aspect of American society. As we can clearly see in the book gender roles and relations were very important. woman will looked at as less than men and men were looked at as the superior gender. An American society and even in societies all across the world this idea or tradition is still practice. women are looked at as less than men and are expected to be kept in the house to cook clean and take care of children. men on the other…

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    expectations that society holds due to the sex they were born with. The way all people dress think, behave and interact is due to an unwritten law code that people must follow and not stray, from their gender roles. Gender roles are defined on Oxford Dictionaries as, “The role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to their gender, determined by the prevailing cultural norms.” From an early age, people are taught to conform to society's standards are stereotypes of how men and women…

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    Women's Workforce

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    Women are part of the workforce of United States of America. Despite the gender roles, society has facilitated for women to work. Women’s workforce remains generally low paid and undervalued. During World War Two and at the end, women began to work. Ever since the 1960s women took steps initiate a new era where women achieve great opportunities. Women had to find a way to sustain their selves, their kids and the elderly economically. So women had to take change since the men were fighting for…

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    Mexico Women Roles

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    and their roles in society whether it is in politics, religion, or economics while little attention has been placed on women and their many roles in Mexican society throughout the years. Mexican history has been rooted in patriarchy with men being the ones who hold the most power while women are relegated to the norms society places on them. Women were expected to marry and take care of the home while men took positions in government and went to war. However, as the years went by and society…

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    In the pre- industrial western world, gender roles in technology were created during a time where the completion of daily tasks and chores was more of a life and death matter, rather than an issue of cleanliness or organization. Pre-market economy, the vast majority of any kind of work was done at the home. Most of the essential goods and supplies that a household needed was produced by the members of the family, using resources available to them. Not having the option to go to the store and buy…

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    Parenting Gender Roles

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    adolescents has been quite a big challenge to the contemporary society. The society in the past must have been strict on some behaviors but with modernity, there is a lot that has changed and this demands a new strategy in redefining the strong society people used to have in the past. Social theory explains the marginalized role of women in the society, yet they stand influential in determining the future and defining the stand of the society. Different materials stage different arguments…

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    Nacirema Gender Roles

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    I really didn’t think much about the difference in the roles that gender. I was always taught that everyone is equal no matter who they are or what they look like. I only thought of gender as male and female. Most cultures exhibit a specific configuration or style. A single significance pattern of perceiving the world often leaves its stamp in the society. Examples are "machismo" in Spanish-influenced cultures, "face" in Japanese culture, and "pollution by females" in some highland New Guinea…

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