Description
Remember you are to complete the question/activity but also comment on a peer’s post to receive full credit.
INSTRUCTIONS:
After reading chapter 7 please answer the following questions.
1. What are some of the gender roles that you currently hold . How do they play out in your every day life?
2. Do you think that our society will ever evolve into one in which one’s gender is relatively unimportant? Why or why not? Is this a positive or negative thing
Please reply on this peer’s post:
“Gender roles that I currently hold are probably things like boys don’t cry. That is the biggest one I remember hearing when I was a child growing up. I grew up around a lot of women and they drilled into my head growing up things boys should and shouldnt do. I’m supposed be tough and if I cry I was acting like a girl. Theres gender roles everywhere in society. From the way we dress, talk, act, where we work for example like women are supposed to be the nurses and men are supposed to be the construction workers and things like that.
I dont think our society will ever evolve into one which gender is relatively unimportant. I think we could possibly get to a society in which males and females are equal like the wage gap for example won’t be a thing anymore. I just think it is too prominent in our society for the gender roles to go away but I don’t neccesarily think it is a bad thing. I don’t think it is positive or negative thing like it is wrong that we tell people how to act and what to wear. If a guy wants to wear a skirt then there shouldnt be a problem with it or if a women wants to go into a male dominated job field that shouldnt be a problem either but I dont think these types of gender roles that we do have negatively affect society. I think individualism is a big thing with the younger generations that are coming into the world and most people are doing what they want with confidence anyway so maybe that will supress the gender roles that are engraved into our society.”
