The Effect of Gender Roles on Relationships
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SummaryAccording to the “Intimate Relationships,” gender roles are patterns of behavior that are culturally expected of “normal” men and women. The most common and traditional gender roles imply that men are supposed to be “masculine” and women are supposed to be “feminine.” Defined using dictionary.com, masculine means “having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, such as strength and boldness,” while feminine means “having qualities traditionally ascribed to women, such as sensitivity or gentleness.”
Table of Contents
- A young girl plays with her dollhouse as her older brother plays football in the backyard with his friends.
- Gender Roles
- According to Cleveland, Udry, & Chantala (2001) and Lippa & Hershberger (1999), people inherit only about a quarter to a third of their tendencies to be either assertive or kind, and the rest are learned through society
- It is because not all people fit in to what we've been brought up to believe is 'normal' as a man or woman that gender roles have such a strong affect on our relationships.
- Her husband, Terry, who grew up in a household where neither his mother nor sister drove a car or held jobs, said that he isn't sexist but just isn't used to a woman who takes so much control and doesn't need him as much as he'd like to feel needed.
- Though we're becoming more open to various ideas about gender and sex, we're still a society that is comforted by a feeling of tradition.
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