Gender Roles and stereotypes

In the 21st century, it's interesting how a few group are as yet in a mentality that men are the suppliers and ladies are the carers. Our general public has set a few standards on how they anticipate that men and women should act, dress, think, talk and how they should project themselves. The notable term given to this is "Gender Roles".

When I was looking down the remarks on Instagram and there was a fascinating remark expressing " Men have more testosterone than a ladies and this is the reason they are genuinely more grounded than ladies". I concur that a few things can't be changed however yet the entirety of this goes under sexual orientation jobs and what and how society sees men, ladies and each and every individual who is a piece of this general public.

Tragically, we must choose between limited options to partake in this general public however we do have a decision of facing the general public and attempting to change it's "belief system". Many individuals get befuddled among gender and sex, so let me disclose this to you. Sex alludes to the organic attributes of people where as gender alludes to the socially characterized jobs of people. Various societies have distinctive sex jobs. For instance in certain societies Women should deal with the house and men should head outside and acquire and by some coincidence if something inverse occurs, as if men remain at home and deal with the house and ladies go out to procure Society terms them "Strange".

This is not it, there are many Gender stereotypes refer to clichés which a man or woman is supposed to do or be like

1. Men are tough and mess 
2. Women are caring and followers
3. Men are good in sport but women they should not be allowed 
4. Men are supposed to earn and women are supposed to do household chores
5. Women and doctors, Nah they are better off as nurses 
6. Men and teachers, no no not good  
7. Women should keep their voices and head down. 

I will have to stop here or the year 2020 will end but not this list. 

These gender roles are not natural to men or women, infact these Gender Schemas are imposed or learned by them through social means and by social I mean to infer socializing agents like parents, teachers, peers, movies, television, music, books, and religion—teach and reinforce gender roles throughout the lifespan. 

So gender roles and stereotyping is okay? No and it never is alright. So what is the harm in all of this? 

To understand the harm, we need to look at the statistics. 
Both boys and girls said that being good- looking is the standout characteristic. 
Girls are supposed to be caring- 44% people said. 
Boys:
Being funny- 23% 
Good looking- 32% 
Tough- 1 in 8 people compared to girls 3%
People imposed these characteristics. 

These findings show that many young people live in an environment where there is more emphasis on traditional male or female stereotypes. This is shown to have a clear impact on young people’s well-being as a whole. Children who chose ‘being tough’ as the most important trait for boys, are shown to have the lowest wellbeing across the group. In contrast, children who chose the relatively gender-neutral trait, ‘working hard at school’, as the most important attribute have the highest well-being.

Moreover, the most damaging impact of restrictive gender norms is that they hurt everyone – people are expected to conform to rigid ideas which limit the spaces and the behaviours they may wish to participate in as then they will be termed abnormal. Gendered norms also result in girls and women experiencing violence, harassment and struggling to receive equal pay and opportunities while boys and men experience higher rates of substance abuse and completed suicide. Furthermore, this leads to body image issues among both genders.  

These things can be tackled by spreading ideas about what it actually means to be a woman, girl, man or a boy by working with parents to help identify and counter dominant gender norms. This is not only important for women but also for men. It’s 2020, Society and Adults should not reinforce the 1970’s gender roles and lower the confidence of the individual.