[Assignment- First Two Year Batch-MEd. 2015-17
- Govt. College of Teacher Education, Thiruvananthapuram]
Gender stereotypes are holding strong:
Beliefs about the roles of men and women are 'as firmly held now as they were
in 1980's. ..
Gender
roles are based on norms or standards created by society. Gender roles are
based on the different expectations that individuals, groups, and societies
have of individuals based on their sex and based on each society's values and
beliefs about gender. Gender roles are the product of the interactions between
individuals and their environments, and they give individuals cues about what
sort of behaviour is believed to be appropriate for what sex. Masculine roles are usually associated with
strength, aggression, and dominance, while feminine roles are associated with
passivity, nurturing, and subordination.
The change is still in the air, there's no doubt that men and
women's roles have become less strictly defined, and many families have made
the male and female roles more egalitarian when it comes to jobs, housework and
childcare. Women’s and men’s
gender identities follow from their specific female or male bodies. We need the
distinction between “sex” as a biological category – genes, hormones, external
and internal genitalia and “gender” as a socio-cultural word – learned
characteristics, cultural expectations and behavioural patterns. This helps
account for differences in the notion of ‘masculinity’ and ‘femininity’ in
different cultures over time and space. The different views of how men and
women behave in different cultures show that gender difference and identity is
given not only by our biology but also from the views of our society. Gender
views may change, while being male or female doesn’t.
Submitted
by Ms. Aiswarya Santhosh
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