Gender roles and norms has played a huge role in our society and still does to this day. These norms and roles are introduced to us at an early age in our lives starting from the moment we are born. Now we see these throughout our life growing up whether it’s at school, home, or definitely in the movies. Role is how a person would act if he/she did only what norms attached to a particular position directed. Whereas norms is the elements of a role. Society has put us in these two boxes giving us feminine and masculine roles and people who differ from them are looked down on or as a disgrace.
Gender roles are introduced to us when we are children and often are introduced by toys, movies, and your surroundings. For boys they are supposed to like cars, play with action figures and like a “boy-like” color such as red or blue, while girls are taught not to play with video games, or guns. Instead they are to like a “feminine’ color such as pink which is the color they given us to represent girls and the color blue for boys. Chimamanda Adichie makes an excellent statement during her ted talk about the way we teach girls to be in life. She states, “We say to …show more content…
Children are first introduced to this socialization by their parents and families at home. Parents are the ones who teaches them about gender and the way they do this is treating the boy or girl differently or having them behave in certain ways. All the stereotypes of how males should be masculine and females should be more feminine increases and expands as they experiment and are exposed to other things in society. The socialization comes from not just parents but also the environment you are in such as schools, their friends or role
Gender roles are introduced to us when we are children and often are introduced by toys, movies, and your surroundings. For boys they are supposed to like cars, play with action figures and like a “boy-like” color such as red or blue, while girls are taught not to play with video games, or guns. Instead they are to like a “feminine’ color such as pink which is the color they given us to represent girls and the color blue for boys. Chimamanda Adichie makes an excellent statement during her ted talk about the way we teach girls to be in life. She states, “We say to …show more content…
Children are first introduced to this socialization by their parents and families at home. Parents are the ones who teaches them about gender and the way they do this is treating the boy or girl differently or having them behave in certain ways. All the stereotypes of how males should be masculine and females should be more feminine increases and expands as they experiment and are exposed to other things in society. The socialization comes from not just parents but also the environment you are in such as schools, their friends or role