The Importance Of Gender Standards In Society

Mothers and fathers have different perspectives on how their children are raised. This causes parents to have different hopes and standards for their children. Parents believe they are being fair and equal but are unconsciously differentiating their standards by gender. Although many parents think they have similar standards for their sons and daughters, parents more often than not have different standards when it comes to their own.

In most cultures, boys and girls are treated very differently. Despite the differences of gender, upbringing creates gender behavior, including aggression and gentility; societal stereotypes of gender, and most importantly, gender-based discrimination.

Society is the one creating differentiation between genders. Genders always have problems with various aspects culture, politics, family, and etc. However, society, mainly the elementary teachers, who brews the students for future, draws a line between boys and girls by external problems like the idea of feminism and some internal problems such as subculture, teachers’ attention, and positive role model, which shape in boys been less successful academically and socially than girls. The problem with feminism, as mentioned in Christina Hoff Sommers, “From The War Against Boys: How misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men,” boys are always been viewed as predator, while girls are portrayed as prey.

The gender equality issue within our society stems from what children are being taught from the day they are born. Whether it is conscious or sub-conscious children are being taught at an early age the stereotypes of what it is to be a girl or a boy. “Choices about what they will play with or wear are made for younger children and, by the time they come to make their own, they have already learnt what is expected of them and will often behave accordingly.” (National Union of Teachers, 2013, p.3). Educators calling on girls to do chores around the classroom or not allowing boys to play in the family corner they are only help in print these stereotypes into the minds of the children. It has been said that children soak up their social environment like sponges, so by sending out new social messages educators are able to create a

More to the point, the male and female genders are characterized as opposites. All in all, gender as a fixed behaviour is the widely accepted understanding and those outside the gender binary are rejected. Research has provided evidence that is indicative of gender-variant children attempting to conform, but struggling due to a lack of support and from victimization directed towards them (Riley, Sitharthan, Clemson, and Diamond,

"You're such a girl!" is something we hear quite often. But we don't exactly analyze its importance. Every man or women act and behave differently, and that is because of gender roles, "instructions for how to behave and appear as a woman or man (Wade and Ferree 2015; 61). We all "do gender", the ways in which we actively obey and break the gender rules of our society." (Wade and Ferree 2015; 61). We don't always obey these rules and regulation, we're all humans, and we all make mistakes, but it's other peoples reaction what's most interesting about breaking them. Once we break these rules, there is something known as gender policing, "responses to the violations of gender rules aimed at promoting conformity. (Wade and Ferree 2015; 71).

For years, both male and females have been treated differently. Parents claim, son or daughter, they treat all of their children the same. From the research I have gathered and also from personal experience, this claim deceives parents. In the sense of a parent, determined by the child’s sex, parents treat their children differently. With this treatment comes numerous situations where double standards occur.These standards can begin to take place as early a toddler. When it comes to parental gender double standards, I believe the phrase “well, she is a girl” and “boys will be boys” is too commonly used by parents. Although parents set a standard for all of their children, daughters tend to be set at a higher standard than sons. These standards

Society is changing how women are raised, and not for the better. People often genderize babies from the moment they are born. Right from birth, hospitals make it a point to identify the gender of a baby by wrapping the newborn in either a blue blanket for a boy or a pink blanket for a girl. This is because society assumes that just because someone is female, they would like the color pink. Society is pushing parents to identify children based on gender early on, which also is the beginning of how gender roles from. For example in the article “Learning to be Gendered,” Penelope Eckert looks at the role that the gender of a baby has on the parents and how the parents in return treat the child differently. In an experiment conducted in the

One wonders, however, how much influence a child's peers have on their understanding of, and adherence to, gender roles. It's certainly important for parents to challenge gender stereotypes, but unless the rest of the world joins in, children are going to be faced with, say, classmates who pull a truck from a girl's hands and yell, "This is a boy's toy!" or science and math teachers who overlook a girl's contributions to the class, or fail to encourage her to participate, due to an ingrained belief that women do not excel in these fields. Perhaps the best anyone can do, as Eliot notes, is to just try to provide kids with as equal a playing ground as possible: ""I don't want to be accused of saying it's all environment and it's all parents,

Conceptions of idealized and appropriate feminine qualities are majorly constructed by the dominant patriarchal discourse that judges female behaviour with reference to gender-based social norms. Incarcerated within the patriarchal disciplinary system, the female bodily act becomes a subject of highly structured regulations whose “inspecting gaze” forces it to be infantilised or penalised. Living under the custody of their offenders, women are the target of a manipulative process that strives to condition them, training them to believe in its established qualities of femininity. Through a systematic surveillance of their behaviours and thoughts, the oppressive controlling system turn women into “docile bodies” which are emblematic of conformity and submissiveness. “[L]argely interpellated by

Despite the popular belief that gender norms and inequalities are no longer an issue in today’s times, these outdated perceptions are still evident and hinder growth in societies. Many Americans are familiar with the phrase, “All men are created equal,” a phrase that may augment one’s patriotism because it can be located in The Constitution. However, this phrase unintentionally sets men higher than women in social status and should be rewritten to “All men AND women are created equal” which erases the barrier in gender inequality once created by our Founding Fathers. Gender norms are also still apparent. When one thinks of a sport such as wrestling, the thought of a female participant may cause one to question why the female in wonder

What are society’s expectations for women today? In Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, Jane is expected to care and teach Mr. Rochester’s child. In the article, “Jen Welter Is Teaching Men, and Girls, as N.F.L.’s First Female Coach” Ken Belson is explaining that Jen Welter is the first woman in history to play for a men’s professional team. Today in our society, women are expected to support their family and get jobs that men can’t get.

It’s easy to see women and men are treated differently even today, though most people think it’s wrong. 88% of moms admitted to treating their kids differently based on their gender. Most parents dress their sons in blue and their daughters in pink, give their sons trucks and send them outside, while they give their daughters dolls and frown on outside play. All of this sort of behaviour leads to children being led into a stereotype from day one. Some mothers who have a male and female child tend to be more harsh as far as punishments on the male children, while the girls tend to get away with a lot more.

According to gender theory, society assigns certain conventions and roles to men and women. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, these gender roles play an important part in developing the plot and the ensuing conflict that follows. Both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth appeal to the role of “manhood” as violent and aggressive in order to accomplish the murders of King Duncan and Banquo. Women are portrayed as initiators of evildoings and, thus, inherently wicked. In Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses the characters of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and Macduff to demonstrate how the change in gender roles from those of medieval society to those of a more modern society create confusing choices in the means of achieving goals.

Most parents try to give their children equal opportunities regardless of their gender. But parents tend to be more protective over their daughters than their sons. Some parents say this is because females are an easier prey. Raising children with gender stereotypes is unfair and can lead to problems such as pressure and high levels of disobedience. Children feel pressured now because if they do not act according to their gender stereotypes or how society wants them to behave, they get shamed and humiliated for not following in society’s rules.As a parent you try to give your children the best, but sometimes that’s just not enough.