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• | written by rizzy 154 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate comment: + -

  
  Hello, In our Psychology's class we are discussing upon Gender Roles in society. I am actually doing a study upon it and I thought it would be great to post something like this and ask the people around the world on what they think upon this topic. To make it a little easier for you guys to completely understand this question of mine, I have broken it down to four questions and answers so you can have a better view upon what I am asking. Fell free to use the same questions and answer them by giving a comment below.
  
  
  
  Do you think gender roles play a significant role in society?
  
  
  
  It depends. How great of a "society" are you talking about? The entire globe, inclusive of people in African tribes, Native Americans, people in the Middle East, etc? Also, how great of a time span are you talking about? But the easy and simple answer would be yes, looking at many content analysis experiments it is clear that gender roles are a major part of society, Children books tend to show females as being indoors and sensitive, while males are shown to be outdoors and in most cases the hero. However, gender roles are changing, for example, Television adverts for male facial moisturizer, now THAT wouldn't have been seen 20 years ago, also many cleaning products advertised on television such as "Cillit Bang" and "Mr Muscle" are advertised by men. So people can go both ways and I would understand where they will be coming from, but for now I would go with yes, because my question involves significantly.
  
  What defines a gender?
  
  To me, Sex and Gender are two seperate things.
  
  Somebodies Sex, is their Biological gender, whether they were born male or female, something that can not be changed.
  
  Somebodies Gender is how they act and how they are percieved within society, For example, A homosexual male, He is Biologically male, but his Gender is more Female due to the way he acts, dresses, speaks etc.
  
  Gender can be altered, Sex cannot
  
  Do you feel that you have been assigned gender roles because of your sex?
  
  I would say yes. Many females say yes because they say that they are brought up by their mothers and therefore they follow what their mothers do. Males often reason, that they find their mothers attractive therefore they label their gender as males.
  
  
  
  How does this effect a society or a culture?
  
  It can lead to difficulties, Males being told to refrain from showing too much emotion, and women being underestimated. Since most people are conditioned to think the two primary gender roles (male and female) are the only ones, poor transgendered folk get cut out of the loop, as well as anyone who may simply not be totally conformant to their birth sex.
  
  
• | written by rizzy 151 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate comment: + -

  
  so many voted but nobody gave their opinion. or answered on my question suiSad :(
  
  

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