Gender Equality

Waad Abdulkareem
6/29/16

OPTION E: GENDER EQUALITY

Does it seem to you like gender equality is a one-way street? When we talk about gender
equality, arent we usually talking about women becoming more like men? Why dont
conversations about gender equality also focus on mens ability to become more like
women? Does our society believe that women can really lead as well as a man? Does our
society really believe that a man can be as nurturing as a woman? What do you believe? The
double standard of aging says that men become more distinguished as they get older and
that women dont. Assuming that you view this double standard as being unfair, what can
you do and what should our society do to remedy this lack of equality?OPTION D: PARENTS,
PEERS & GENDER ROLES

How did your parents influence the development of your gender role? In what ways did you
model yourself after your same gender parent? In what ways are your conceptions of
appropriate gender roles similar to or different from those of your parents? During high
school, what influences did your peers have on your gender role development? How
important were your boyfriends or girlfriends in developing your sense of yourself as a

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woman or man? Who are the people who most influence your gender-role concepts today?
As a parent, what gender roles will you model for your children?

Parents are not always aware that they treat their sons and daughters differently. (Strong &
Cohen, 2014, 122).

Before a person is born, their parents know if it is a male or a female, and they

start planning for them, color of their room, things they want them to have, clothes, toys, and
other things for them. Once the baby is born parents and everyone around them starts treating
them differently. If it is a girl, they get her the colors for females and they get her toys for girls,
they treat her different than they would treat boys, for example they know that girls are more
sensitive so even the games they play with her are girls games. Then when a girl grows up, she
starts going to the kitchen with her mom and learn things that her mom does. Things like putting
making wearing clothes like her mom and her attitude becomes like her mom. Then when shes

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older she starts hanging out with girlfriends that she learns a lot from and start having
conversations that girls have, things like girls games, makeup, guys and clothes.
Guys are different from girls. Once a boy is born they have a blue room, car toys. They
start learning things from their dad, how to dress up, how to act and how to treat others. They
start doing things that their dad does; like working in the yard, fixing things at home. And then
they get older and start having friends that would play games and talk about cars and girls. They
get a little older and start thinking about different careers. Guys tend to think about masculine
jobs while girls think of feminine like being a nurse a teacher, while guys think about being a
racer, engineer, fix car..etc
When people get older they begin to think more independently, think about things that
makes them happy, they start wanting to change the way things were. Some people start thinking
about changing their ideas and believing in things that their parents did not teach them. It all
comes from their friends if they were taught different things, they start telling their friends what
it is and how happy they are doing it, so when they try it and see that they are happy. Some
people change their gender because of the things they tried that they liked after learning different
things.
I was born and taught how to be a girl since I was young, I was raised with 2 brothers that
made me a little different because they would do things that I could not because I am a girl, but I
was treated a little different because I am the little spoiled girl. I got everything I wanted, I was
mostly spoiled by my dad then my brothers and mother. I grew up and started hanging out with
girls that I learned from them things like we started putting make up, learned how to dress like
ladies. As a parent I will want my kids to be raised the way I was raised where men and women

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are different, there are things that men do and women dont and things women do and men dont,
I will teach my kids that genders are different and make sure they act like a male or like a female.

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References
Strong, B, & Cohen, T. F. (2014). The marriage and family experience: Intimate relationships in a changing society (12th ed.).
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.