Gender Roles

Title: Gender Roles
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 324 | Pages: 1.4 (approximately 235 words/page)

Gender Roles

Have you ever seen a baby boy wearing pink? Or a boy playing with a Barbie® and being encouraged to do so? The answer to both these questions is blatantly obvious- no. That’s because males and females are conditioned to act a certain way, according to their gender, from the moment they are born. Gender is one of the universal dimensions on which status differences are based. Unlike sex, which is a biological concept, …showed first 75 words of 324 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 324 total…very strongly tipped toward males, and social sciences and humanities tipped toward females. This leads to economic inequality because high-paying careers in our modern society usually require strong backgrounds in mathematics and science (Mickelson 1997). It is interesting to note, however, that women can and do achieve academically as well as men (Klien 1985 et al.). In fact, more girls than boys graduate from high school and more women than men receive baccalaureate and masters degrees (Mickelson 1997).

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