Sunday, May 6, 2012
Gender Roles
Gender norms are pretty important in our society. It dictates what jobs certain genders can get. For instance, most secretaries are women. A woman would be able get a job as a secretary easier than a man. Also, it controls how men and women act differently. Men have to be tough. The most powerful men are supposed to be white, strong, and smart. Women are supposed to be weak. Gender roles contribute a lot to our society social norms.
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Gender roles contribute greatly to a unprogressive culture and only allows any type of progression to be a man's progression in a egotistical and selfish direction. To shun women from gender equality, men are simply intimidated by them because woman hold an essential mind set that threatens a man to be taken down from his high horse.
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