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Gender Stereotypes For Women In Canada

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What is gender ?

The gender describes how our understandings and perception of differences between masculinity (what society deems appropriate behaviour a “man” and femininity (what society deems appropriate behaviour for a “woman”) are influenced.

What is breech ?

In the field of sociology, breech is defined as the violation of commonly accepted social rules and norms.

After the birth of newly born babies, a specific gender is engraved on them based on their sexual dimorphism – male babies are assigned as boys and female babies are assigned as girls, and another category generally involves intersex babies. According to the scholars gender does not have natural existence but instead it is just a concept that is constructed by cultural and …show more content…

At times women dressed as men to gain entry into jobs prohibited to them and they also donned white gloves before chaining themselves to Canada’s Parliamentary Gallery.
Women also led successful campaigns for government paid hospitals and child protection laws. In spite of these achievements, however, few women in Canada are celebrated as nation builders. But still women are a degree below than men in status.

Here I am going to talk about norm breech for women that they are not allowed to grow their body hairs and this breech still exists in this society. According to, research one in ten women is a victim of excess body and facial hairs and they spend hours in waxing and shaving their body hairs. There are different reasons that makes it a continuing norm breech for women. First reason is, that men don’t like women with moustaches because they do not like the masculine feature and it does not suit femininity. Most modern men think that body hair of women are obstruction in their path that reduces the level of sexy look and hotness of the …show more content…

Actually, I was in my senior secondary and in my class, there was a girl with bunch of facial hair and no one in the class liked her because of her facial hairs even her female classmates didn’t enjoy her company. Hardly she was having 2-3 friends in the whole school. Every one in the school compared her with masculinity features. I vividly remember her first day in the school when she entered the class along with the whole class I was also surprised after watching her she looked awkward to me for few days but after we became very good friends. One day I asked her about her hairs then she told me that she met with an accident and she got a surgery and doctors injected different concentrations of different chemicals in her body to cure her but unfortunately with the introduction of different drugs in her body, hair started growing on her body. After, when I got familiar with whole situation I started having sympathy for her. But I think this will continue to be a norm breech for women in 17 years because it depends on the mentality of different people that how they see this norm breech and most of the males don’t like the female with facial and body

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